Wikis+in+Education

After watching the video "Wikis in Plain English", you are probably now wondering how you would go about using a wiki to teach your students.

Some suggested ideas are: - collaboration on a class project - creating local action with students from another school, ie, through SRC. - sharing ideas in group learning activities (this would be awesome for us here at distance education) - increasing communication between the teachers in a faculty/school and allowing them to interact and include their ideas about curriculum, school policy, etc

At SDEHS we already have access to a wiki tool through the Moodle website. Students are given the following information about the purpose of Wikis:

//A Wiki is an activity in which students jointly create a document on the web. With other members of your class you can add, expand and edit content. It is an effective tool for collaborative authoring and a great way to do group work. Old versions are never deleted and can be restored.//

Wikis are used all over the globe to engage students in their learning and enhance their understanding of the relationship of skills learnt to the wider world. The links below are to some general //Wikis in Education// sites. They may give you some ideas as to how you could implement the wiki in your class activities and with a given group of students.

[|Wikis in the Classroom] - a website that provides a range of wikis from schools across the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand. Created by teachers for their classes

[|Angela's Ashes] - A site dedicated to a summer reading project for a group of English students (English)

[|Year 8 Lab Reports] - A collaborative wiki for students to complete their lab reports (Science)

Dragon Art - An art wiki with some examples of a process diary.

[|Student Created Wikis] - Wikis created by students in the pursuit of completing class activities