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=PLN Wiki Assignment: Focus on Social Sciences=

Working with your [|PLN], your assignment is to create a “Social Sciences Wiki.” This wiki will contain [|state] and [|national] standards for teaching social sciences; links to social sciences lesson plans; summaries, adaptations, and modifications of lessons; and links to web applications and off/online extension activities. This project will teach you how to create wikis and generate a final product that you can utilize as you prepare your own lesson plans. Wikis are collaborative writing and editing communities. A wiki is not just a repository of individually-authored material, but a collective space requiring collective maintenance. Each PLN member should make contributions that create an organized, intelligible, well-designed space. This includes:
 * making both internal [|wikilinks] between related pages (including your own content) and external links to other wikis and websites that define words, extend knowledge, and broaden page information;
 * adding images, widgets, and interactive elements where appropriate;
 * maintaining collaborative community and structure (e.g., editing the table of contents and navigation menus, contributing to information presented, improving design, encouraging collaboration among others, etc.);
 * providing constructive edits and being a good wiki citizen (e.g., avoiding negative personal comments).