Reflections from the Trenches

I though Viki Davis’s article was very good. It was interesting to see her process through which she took the students as they worked on the wiki and then their reaction to the tool. Any time you can get high school kids excited I think it is a good thing.

One aspect of the Wolves Den wiki was the Table of Contents. I can see where that would be a good thing to have. Additionally, I was interested in seeing how they were putting their scribe notes on the wiki. This is something we’ve started in HS but it has not had the impact it should really have yet.

I liked how a couple of the wikis included links to online safety information regarding web 2.0 tools. One such wiki was the Code Blue wiki.

As I was looking over the Room 15 wiki I began to ask myself what was the difference between a typical class website like all of our teachers currently have and the wiki. The one difference I came up with is that the students are involved in posting information as well so that it becomes an “owned” resource.

I’ve already started a classroom wiki, but we have a lot of work to do on it. These examples give me some ideas as to what can be done with a wiki.

~ by josteen on March 17, 2008. Tagged: wiki classroom examples