Talk:Wiki in a K-12 classroom

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Just thought this might be an obvious one to talk about as we explore this particular piece of technology. :) One reason I really like Wikis is their real open-endedness - they can be used in hundreds of ways, for hundreds of different purposes. My experience has been in using one to organize a large event with a team of about 50 people (all in one city except about 6 or 7 of us). We worked extensively on the wiki for a year planning this - it was a puzzle competition, so the planning involved creating a theme, creating the structure of the competition, writing and testsolving all the puzzles (over 120), etc. Almost all of this was done through the wiki, and it looked very different from wikipedia or other wikis that are mostly for sharing information. One of the teams used a Wiki to organize their solving efforts, and it looked very different too. Looking at the links from Blackboard, there are a variety of uses and formats represented just in that short list of education Wikis. So maybe we can use this page to brainstorm on all the ways something so flexible could be used in a classroom. -Brandy

Jodi: I thought initially that wikis in K-12 were not practical. I thought the students would be too irresponsible with it. However, the wiki site about writing story lines for TV (in a past article we read a couple of weeks ago) gave me a great idea for an English assignment. The wiki outlined all the possible character types, plots, etc., with explanation and examples. It is something I thought students might like to create themselves. It ties very well with some English SOLs. In addition, I am thinking of not just creating a web site, but using a wiki for a collaborative project between LHS and an international high school in China.