Monday, July 5, 2010

Tool #6

A Wiki is a tool that allows students to interact with each other, and with other classrooms and students across town or around the world.
Using Wikis would be helpful for students in older grades by allowing them to collaborate with each other while sharing and storing information. Often times it can be difficult for students working on group projects to finish their work together during limited class time. With the use of a Wiki students could work together even while they are not at school. I read that some teachers like using the Wiki because often times it is difficult to assess student participation on group projects...but with a Wiki the teacher can easily see what each student contributed to the project.

I think that from a pre-k teacher's perspective it is difficult for me to imagine how the students in my class would be able to benefit from a Wiki. I do, however see many uses for it for me as a teacher. The teachers on my team have often tried to collaborate with lesson plan ideas for our classrooms. This can be time consuming and difficult trying to set up meetings to share, or even having everyone email each other various ideas. Having to deal with emails flying at you from every direction, and keeping track of the various ideas is not an easy task. Trying to organize them is even harder. By using a Wiki teachers could all add their ideas to a single lesson plan to share, thereby avoiding redundant ideas, by adding only ideas that have not previously been stated by someone else.

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