I became really excited when I was viewing the samples of wikis. I even started my own classroom workspace using the free space given for teachers. How fun!!! I feel that my students will greatly benefit from creating their own work spaces by keeping student porfolios and posting their writing or work to share with other classmates. As a class we could even interact with students across the district or even across the country or world!! Parents could maintain constant interaction and involvement by viewing the workspace to see volunteer lists, home work and grade level newsletters.
After viewing a sample wiki created by a class of second graders, I came up with a couple ideas of how I could create and use a wiki in my classroom. Since I teach language arts with a focus on the steps of the writing process, I could allow my students to type their writing pieces on a work space and then during peer editing/revising, have students actually make those revisions on the work space to share with each other. This would also allow them to share with family at home or for parents that have limited access to computers, invite them to school for wiki share time. :) Also with any kind of group research or collaborated work, the students could share information using the student work space. Since our fourth and fifth graders are now using netbooks, using wikis will be so much easier in the classroom. I am excited about implementing this into my classroom this school year. Plus I just love saying the word, "wiki". :)
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