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Welcome:
 An experiment in learning the Wiki way, a collaborative tool for understanding concepts in Advanced Placement
Economics at Shanghai American School; welcome to Welker's Wikinomics
Page, for students and teachers of AP Economics. This site serves as a
portal for web resources, an online, student-created study guide, and
means of communication about all things economics. Every unit of the AP
syllabus is represented here, along with links to online resource to
enhance student learning. The bulk of this site is student-created. Click here to visit Welker's Wikinomics Blog
NEWS: Welcome to Welker's Wikinomics' new home. Due to the blocking of Wetpaint from within China, our Wiki has been moved to Zoho Wikis, another great site that should serve our purposes while the Wetpaint sites remains blocked.
Our Wiki is nominated for "Best Educational Wiki 2007"Award by the EduBlog Awards! Click on the badge to the left to cast your vote for Welker's Wikinomics!
To access the original Welker's Wikinomics, where AP Microeconomics Units 1 "Basic Economic Concepts, and 2 "Product Markets" are located, click HERE if you are within China, or HERE if you are anywhere else.
Quick Navigation:
SAS Economists Podcasts - AP Econ students have begun submitting their Microeconomics podcast assignments. These are being posted in two places, Welker's Wikinomics Blog and the SAS Economists Blog.
Follow the links to hear and watch these entertaining, informative
investigations into how basic economics concepts are reflected in our
everyday lives!
Important links:
What we're blogging about:
Rules of Conduct at Welker's Wikinomics:- All AP Economics students as SAS are required to contribute to this site.
- Only
constructive, well thought out and informed input is welcome. Any
contributions that are inappropriate or incorrect will be either
removed or corrected by students or Mr. Welker/Ms. Close.
- Main unit pages may not be edited by students, only topic pages within main units are for student editing.
- Links to external sites relevant to a particular topic are welcome.
- Links
to news articles, websites, blogs or other wikis (such as Wikipedia)
can be included in an edit if it is deemed to be useful in
understanding the topic.
- Once each unit, every student
must post a link and abstract for an article related to the unit's
topics on the "AP Econ in the News Page."
- Once each unit, every student must also post their opinion or views on the unit's "Student Thought Forum."
- Graphs may be uploaded as picture files if they are deemed helpful for understanding a topic.
- Videos appropriate to the topics covered may be added to pages as "widgets". Inappropriate videos will be removed.
- Students
who are not in Mr. Welker's or Ms. Close's AP Economics classes may not
to contribute to Welker's Wikinomics Page without permission.
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