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**PSA's Purple Room's Wiki**

Welcome PSA teachers to your very own Wiki. But what's a Wiki? A Wiki is like an online file cabinet that we can open up anytime, and from anyplace. But why do we want a Wiki? We want a Wiki so that we can share our favorite online resources with one another. But is it going to be a lot of work? Nope, no work whatsoever. If you would like to contribute to the Wiki simply copy the link that you would like to share into an e-mail and send it to me (Teddy Marino at tmarino@preschoolofthearts.com). I will then present the link to the technology committee and we can post it under the most appropriate Wiki page.

Wiki page? What's a Wiki page? Just look left of this big white text box, here. You see where it says "HOME, Art ideas, Games ideas . . . ." those are the different pages. Each page holds a special category of resource. But are these the only categories that we can have? Absolutely not! This Wiki belongs to PSA teachers. If you are interested in creating another category then please share your idea with the technology committee. You can either e-mail your idea to me (Teddy) or you can join us for one of our monthly meetings (always the first Thursday of every month.)

Now, some quick words about the resources (organized by page) that we have currently:


 * Art ideas**

While it's difficult to find online art ideas with an open-ended Reggio-twist, we have posted resources with a plethora of unique ideas. If you wished, you could take these ideas (that sometimes border on craft rather than art) and tweek them to fit your own classroom's exploration


 * Games ideas**

As of now, our games page is limited to only two websites. So please, if you know of any other websites with games, send them our way. Much like the art websites, the games may not fit perfectly into an open-ended exploration, but they do provide some very rich ideas that you could adapt into the most perfect game possible.


 * Music ideas**

The music page, at this point, is probably our most well-rounded page. It includes a website from Vanessa Bonds, that kind PhD student who visited us back in September and October. In this page she demonstrates (on video) about eight different songs with movements. The music page also includes websites that provide musical games, instructions on how to make your own musical instruments, and "folk music" for kids (that you might be interested in purchasing.)


 * Reggio Emilia articles**

What is Reggio and what is Reggio-inspired? And how do we explain this to our parents and how to we explain it to one another? We're compiling our favorite Reggio articles so that we always have them on hand to refer out. . . to each other, and to parents.


 * Spanish songs**

Needless to say, this page is dedicated to the Purple room. However, maybe you would also be interested in infusing some Spanish spice into your classroom?