I have always been extremely curious what EXACTLY a wiki is and today, my mind was enlightened. I have been using wikis and felt kind of silly when I found this out. Of course, I was excited to see what creating my own wiki was all about.
Once again to my amazement, I was delighted to be presented with the amazing-ness of a wiki. This is yet another tool for my Tech Toolbelt that will be extremely helpful in my professional career. Not only can I use this for my classroom, but for my own personal life as well. A wiki seems to be the ultimate "opening" of outside of the classroom contact. It is different from a website, or as explained in the YouTube video Wikis In Plain English an email. On a website, the students can keep in contact, but multiple users cannot easily edit the information.
The wiki is the ultimate "online classroom" As we have seen from our classroom, it it an easy, accessible way for multiple users to edit and link their information. A wiki also has a multitude of other information available through the widget pages as well. The widgets are my favorite part of a wiki. Through widgets, the teacher and students can add relevant information that will be useful for the multiple collaborators.
I thoroughly enjoyed learning about Wiki and think that out of every technology we have learned about, it will be the one that I most likely use in the classroom.
You can check out my very first wiki here **** ENJOY!
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Hey Tina!
ReplyDeleteI agree, Wiki's are awesome! I love the widgets too! On the wiki I made, I added a skype call widget so people can all me on skype! How neat is that? This could be useful when everyone is on the wiki working so we can have a "conference call." This way, everyone can work together even if they are not actually together.
I love the title of this post haha! I love wiki, too! It would be awesome to use it as a class website and have your students post memories from field trips, or things they learned, etc. Also, the teacher could post pictures from a class field trip! Just a fun way to add to your classroom...
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