Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Facilitate Teaching, Writing, and Learning with Wikis

Wikis are free online writing spaces which allow collaboration between authors. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia.

Teachers can use wikis to:

*Provide a space for free writing

*Debate course topics, including assigned readings

*Share resources such as annotated bibliographies, websites, and effective writing samples

*Maintain a journal of work performed on group projects

*Require students to collaborate on documents, such as an essay written by the entire class

*Discuss curricular and instructional innovations

*Encourage students to revise Wikipedia pages or take on new wikipedia assignments

*Inspire students to write a Wikibook

*Support service learning projects (i.e. use wikis to build a website about a challenge in their city)

Wikispaces is one option to Create simple web pages that groups, friends, & families can edit together.

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