I did look up Wikis specifically for the deaf, but I really only found a couple designed to help people understand deaf culture. I loved them, and maybe could use them in my classroom to help students new to the school or late deafened and therefore new to Deaf culture. They could also be helpful for parents trying to help their newly diagnosed child integrate into Deaf culture. But while these are useful, they are not exactly what I was looking for.
I was really looking for were Wikis about social studies content. I was so glad to find so many. With deaf students, it is better to have more visual information than less, and to be honest the more captioned videos something has the more my students are engaged. I found that the following things were most important to a good WebQuests for deaf student:
1. Working links
2. Pictures (preferably original ones) that are labeled
3. Not a lot of weird moving grahics that distract from the text
4. Directions that are clearly labeled as directions and are very concise
5. Videos with closed captioning or English subtitles
I looked at the following wiki: http://constitutionresources.pbworks.com/w/page/16391949/FrontPage about the US constitution. It was helpful, and all the data was recent (history only changes so much). It's really more of a teacher resource, with more lesson plans than just activities. I saw no student work, it seemed to only be for teachers. However, it was super useful.
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