Wikispaces is something I am familiar with. We touch on wikis in our classes, but have never been able to use them effectively with our students--until now!! I have just created an assignment to use throughout our department using a wiki. The assignment will be a report on a certain decade, but the students will be working with students from other classes. We have 4 "Online Experience" teachers that will be collaborating this assignment and my students will be creating a wiki with their students. I've tried to do them in my class, but I found that the students couldn't all work on them at once because they were deleting others work and I wanted them to see that you can work on a project together without being in the same room!!
The wiki is different from the blog because anyone can edit your page (assuming you allow them to). In general wikis are very plain looking compared to a blog, but I think that allows you a little more freedom to make it your own.
I have already explained what I am using the wiki for and I do use blogs in the classroom to get students opinions on topics that we discuss in class. This wiki however, will be research and facts that they have to create the wiki on.
Like I said above, my purpose for the wikis is to teach my students what a wiki is. So my dilema was always coming up with ways to use them in the classroom. With this new project, they will see what it will be like to work with students that are not even in their class or even have the same teacher. The problem I forsee with this is that students may not do their part and it could affect the overall outcome of the groups wiki.
I'm really excited about this project I hope it works!! I'll post the URL on this blog if anyone is interested in viewing it once we begin!!
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