My Wiki

If you look at my links on the right side of this blog you will see a link to my wiki. On this wiki you will find (at the time of this post) information about myself and a link to a page about some of the Web 2.0 tools I discovered while at the FOSSEd conference this past June. For those of you who do not know what a wiki is, to put it in simple terms, it is a webpage or site where other viewers or friends can change and update the information on it. You have probably heard of wikipedia, which is entirely created by various viewers who are self-proclaimed experts on the topics that provide content for. A wiki has great potential in the classroom. There are teachers who use wikis for collaboration activites. One example is creating a wiki about a novel a class is reading, with some groups working on chapter summaries while others are creating pages on vocabulary, information about the author, or plot mountains. Another classroom use of a wiki is to have the teacher and students collaborating together in creating the textbook for whatever topic they are studying.

There are several different choices available to the educator who wants to create a classroom wiki. I use wikispaces, but there is also pbwiki, wikidot, wetpaint, and many others. You can also create a wiki in Moodle (if your district has a Moodle server).

There are many more educational used for a wiki and I have only touched on a few in this posting. If you do a search of wikis in education, I am sure you will find more ways to use this collaborative tool.