WIKIS

For the first part of the assignment, I went to Wikipedia and was able to find my school listed. One of my fellow teachers had taken this class and first started the page on Ann Arbor Learning Community. I added our mission statement along with a sentence on open enrollment and no tuition fees as we are a public charter school.  My biggest problem in adding information was knowing how to site the material being added, especially if it was knowledge I had as a staff member. I informed my dean that we had a wiki page on Wikipedia so we could add to it as a school for marketing purposes. We have dubbed our school as "Ann Arbor's best kept secret" and are on a mission to do more marketing of our school. This is another great way to do that. 


For the second part of the assignment, I created a wiki to keep people informed about our gardens at AALC. As part of our charter, we have a garden curriculum and are in the process of developing a variety of gardens which will be used as outdoor classrooms. Communicating our needs for donations and summer maintenance has been a problem in the past and I thought this would be a way to help solve the problem. Since we run on donations and fund raisers, money for doing our garden projects is often tight. My hope is that people and businesses from the community may view our wiki and take an interest in what we are doing at the school. I have included several different pages (About Us, Photo Gallery, Projects, Discussion, etc.) which are currently under construction. I wanted a discussion page so we could get ideas from our families and allow them to post their comments or concerns about the gardens. I am excited to develop this wiki further over the summer with the intention of utilizing it next school year. 


Here is the link to my wiki: 
https://aalcgardens.wikispaces.com/ 


Here is the link to our school page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor_Learning_Community

I hope you'll find the information about our school interesting!