Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
WIKI
Wiki's are a new concept for me and I am learning for many others too! I have been asking friends, family, and colleagues...what on earth is a wiki? I get the same response..."do you mean Wikipedia?" However, after watching the Common Craft video and seeing the exchange between 4 friends preparing for a camping trip and visiting a couple of websites and noting elementary examples, I have a better idea. Though, I am not entirely sure how I would one: get this up and running as an effective tool for my students but also two: how to maintain.
Students at the elementary age are still learning basic peer communication as well as computer skills. Using Microsoft Word to type a paragraph can sometimes be painfully time consuming, never mind responding/editing each other’s ideas/work on a wiki. However, an example given on “How to Wiki” was to create collaborative book reviews. This is something that I could assign as an at-home project as opposed to a reading response.
Students at the elementary age are still learning basic peer communication as well as computer skills. Using Microsoft Word to type a paragraph can sometimes be painfully time consuming, never mind responding/editing each other’s ideas/work on a wiki. However, an example given on “How to Wiki” was to create collaborative book reviews. This is something that I could assign as an at-home project as opposed to a reading response.
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