About+the+Wiki+Creator

media type="custom" key="12960994" Michele L. Haiken, EdD is a teacher at Rye Middle School in Rye, NY. She has also worked as adjunct professor at Manhattanville College located in Purchase, NY. She has more than 15 years of experience teaching in New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut. Michele received her Doctorate in English Education in 2005 from [|Teachers College Columbia University]. She also holds an Ed.M. from Teachers College and received her B.A. in English Education and Women's Studies from [|Syracuse University]. Currently, the classes she teaches at Rye Middle School are courses she designed to address literacy and students' interests. These classes include a rock history class, speech and debate, drama, media literacy and a career exploration class. For teaching ideas and lessons created by Michele, visit her blog The Teaching Factor.

//Below is a list of the student centered wikis created and utilized with her middle school students://

www.rockwritelisten.wikispaces.com This wiki was created in 2008 for students participating in a semester long rock history course taught at Rye Middle School. Wikispaces Blog highlighted this wiki in 2008 for its use and creative wiki activities posted on the wiki. Every year new pages and student projects are posted on the wiki. Activities ranging from digital storyelling, glogs, reflections, and student created wiki pages.

www.beyondrms.wikispaces.com Beyond RMS wikispaces was created for a career exploration elective at Rye Middle School. This wiki contains activities for students on topics such as college, multiple intelligences, a student written blog about guest speaker careers and student created Glogs about a variety of careers. This wiki is a student generated wiki with new activities and pages being added daily.

www.mediasavvykids.wikispaces.com This wiki was created for a media literacy elective taught to 7th and 8th grade students. This wiki contains reflections on assignments ranging from advertising and the internet, the wikipedia debate, and deconstructing reality television. Student created videos and other created projects.