I found this digital tool very easy to create and I am very confident that any high school student could manage this application within a subject. My Wiki
At first I was having trouble getting my head around how I would use a wiki in the classroom as I prefer a blog. With a Blog as a teacher I am able to gain more control over what is posted and who has access to it and most of the activities I had thought up worked in well with a blogs functionality. However after reading ideas from the website 50 ways to use a wiki my mind started exploding with ideas and now blogs seem a tool of the past. My next worry was how am I going to apply these activities scientifically? After coming across the website wiki ideas for the class room more ideas started to expanded and I was able to make a connection to the content of the science curriculum.
My favourite activities at the present is designing an wiki that students formulate their own glossary of terms linking sites to these terms. In science and in other subjects it can feel like you are speaking a different language and it can be good to gain other peoples interpretations of concepts.
Thanks for the website on "50 ways to use a wiki" it has some good ideas which I will try to use.
ReplyDeleteHi Ash, 50 ways to use a wiki is great, thanks for the tip. I like your idea of students creating a glossary and linking websites to it, this is a great way to link in secondary sources. I think an environment that leads to students adding or commenting on wikis is important. By doing this they are evaluating other work and making judgements on content. However at the end of the day it is up to the LM to ensure they have implemented good pedagogy so students learn how to make judgements correctly.
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