Wiki

On Monday, Dr. Koppenhaver showed us how to create a wiki. Kelly D. and I worked together on a wiki about webquests. It went really well. It was very easy to do and I felt like I really got something successfully accomplished when I left class on Monday. It was neat how Kelly and I could colloborate to do this. She and I discussed how to split up the project and we each worked individually to create our parts and then it just all came together on the wiki page. I think that would be great for kids. I remember when I student taught (about 7 years ago----7th grade---these kids are sophomores in college now---yikes!) my students worked in colloborative groups to create powerpoints about a region in Africa. They split up the tasks, but they were all crowded around one little computer with one person do all of the input while everyone else either offer suggestions or didn't do much at all. If we had used wiki, everyone could have completed their own task at their own computers and then put the information together as it was posted on the wiki! So much better.

Wikis would be great on any colloborative process in any subject.