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The reasons for using wikis in My teaching
The reasons for using wiki in My teaching More and more classrooms are now learning, creating, reading, and testing online. In order to keep up with our technologically demanding lifestyles, the traditional classroom is making way for such innovative tools as wiki. Not only is this an inexpensive way to manage your classroom, it’s also a fun way to engage students in content across the curriculum. Incorporating wiki into the classroom provides a very different kind of online experience for your students. Essentially, you put them in the driver’s seat. By giving students more control over a project’s outcome, you are encouraging them to be producers, rather than just consumers, of information. This reversal of roles ultimately helps student master content. On the road to effective use of wiki in the classroom, your first step is to find a wiki site suitable for you and your students. When to use a As you’re beginning to see, wikis are ideal for group projects that emphasize collaboration and editing. Some common uses include: Mini research projects in which the wiki serves as documentation of student work Collaborative annotated bibliographies where students add summaries and critiques about course-related readings Compiling a manual or glossary of useful terms or concepts related to the course, or even a guide to a major course concept Maintaining a collection of links where the instructor and students can post, comment, group or classify links relevant to the course Building an online repository of course documents where instructors and students can post relevant documents Creating e-portfolios of student work Wikis work best when individual authorship is less important than the outcome that is created.