Blog Post: Thing 10 – wikis

Blog Post: Thing 10 – wikis
Create a blog post about your findings. Explain what you posted on the Curriculum Connection wiki. What did you find interesting? What types of applications within schools might work well with a wiki? If you were going to create your own wiki, what subject and content would you include?

This is what I posted on the Curriculum Connection Wiki:
I feel that there are many valuable ways to use wikis in schools and libraries. I also teach a few classes online and can see how wikis can make collaborating with a group very easy in an online class. I think with the discussion capabilities group projects can be run very smoothly.

I think what I found most interesting about wikis is that you do not need to know how to use HTML or create a website in order to create a wiki. Making it much easier for the person with average tech skills to create one.

I think of my students and the classes I teach and all the ways that we can use Wikis. As teachers we need to get rid of notebooks and have students keep track of class lectures through a wiki. Also wikis can be used as a great way to correspond with classmates in a group project wheater it be an online course or a Face to Face class. Wikis can be utilized in all of our classes.

If I was going to create a wiki I would start by creating one about my courses, I would have my syllabus my assignments and the agenda of what is to be covered in each class. I would then allow my students to comment with questions about the assignments right in the wiki.