Wiki, Wiki, Wiki
Jul 6th, 2008 by Mr. Higgins
This blog entry is for TEC-950: Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom
Discuss your experience exploring the wiki sites and creating your wiki.
I have enjoyed using wikis throughout my Web 2.0 reign on the internet. I have used them for my own classes and often run into PBWiki and Wikispaces when dealing with professional development websites. I really hope people begin to realize that Wikipedia is a resource, just not the encyclopedic resource that students want it to be.
Publish your thoughts on using PBWiki or one of the other wiki sites in the classroom.
I like how Wikispaces is really simple to use and my students picked up on it very quickly. They were able to easily transition into the world of anyone can edit at any time (I really was not alowing much peer editing at the time).
Provide a link to the wiki that you created.
Scribe Hall of Fame - http://norwalk.wikispaces.com/Scribe+Hall+of+Fame
Highlight at least one example of how you might use a wiki in your classroom and how this lesson/activity will meet one or more of the NETS-S.
In my first year of teaching I made a project where we discussed every Web 2.0 topic we could think of for an entire period. Each student was to then make a wiki page on three different topics and show it off to the class. Eventually, they developed a podcast based on their information.
