Team Projects: Wikis are perfect for team projects. Everyone on the team can add to and edit the group's project on a wiki page. It's as easy as clicking on the "edit" button and adding your content. Older versions of the edited pages are preserved, so students can retrieve earlier work if they want to. This history also lets you view the history of their work and who edited what. You can even leave comments for the students about their project. Other students can leave comments too.
Research Organizer/Journal: Wikis also work well as a place for individual students to keep track of their notes and progress on a research project. Other students, teachers, parents (whoever you give access to) can also view the work and leave comments. See Joyce Valenza's blog post for a suggested outline for this type of wiki.
Student showcases: Students can use wikis as a portfolio of their work. It's easy to create links to other documents that they've created throughout a class. And this gives them a simple way to present all their work and offer reflections on their work as well.
Go Global: Find other classroom partner and collaborate with students around the world.
Remember When - Memories of Ipswich -- Ipswich (Queensland) Public Library project to preserve memories and photos of seniors in the community. Great resource for students doing local history projects. I love this project. What a wonderful model for a collaborative community project with any combination of students, seniors, schools & libraries participating.
Flat Classroom Project - Students collaborated to discuss trends from Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat"
Room 15 Classroom Wiki 6th grade classroom wiki. Book reviews by students, news, homework, student writing.
Voices of the World - Classrooms around the world participating in an audio based project. Each month a new task for the students. Fun stuff!
Creekview High School Media Center Research Pathfinder Page - Created with Google Sites, which is very wiki-ish. Owners can invite people to edit pages, easy to edit and organize content, can revert pages back to earlier versions. I don't see a way to let anyone edit if they have a password though, they need to be invited to edit. And though it's easy to add photos and content from other Google owned services (apps, picasa, google gadgets, youtube) there doesn't seem to be a way to add the html code/scripts to add other content (flickr slideshow, etc)
California 2.0 Currriculum Connections - Companion to California's school library Learning 2.0 project. A place to share ideas for using 2.0 tools in the curriculum.
LMNet Wiki Share ideas and resources with other school libriarians.
Teacher Librarian Wiki Joyce Valenza's terrific resource for sharing: "wisdom and our best instruction--the new understandings, lessons, units, handouts, rubrics, presentations, images, and teaching tips that have been either rotting in our file cabinets or posted and lonely on our individual sites."
Classroom 2.0 Wiki Ideas for classroom use of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies.
Library Success Wiki Great source for ideas about library services. Share your successes here!
Feed del.icio.us links to a wiki for a quick live subject guide.
Test on Wikispaces - (Biology) Wkispaces now has an "embed widget" option making it easy to add RSS feeds.
Test on Wetpaint - Not as many RSS options as Wikispaces, though it's very easy to add an RSS feed directly.
Test on PBwiki - PBWiki test. Created with feed2js to create javascript to display headlines. Can't add RSS feeds directly. Feed2js offers the most flexible formatting options.
More examples of wikis in education are listed on these sites:
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