Wiki Wisdom: How to Use an Online Classroom Clearinghouse Teacher Louise Maine offers tips for using wikis in class. You don't need to be a technology whiz to bring the power of wikis to your classroom, says Punxsutawney Area High School teacher Louise Maine. In a year and a half since discovering the educational potential of this Web tool, she has learned enough to use a wiki as the hub for almost everything she and her science students do. (Read here about how she uses it.) All it takes, she says, is the curiosity to explore new possibilities and the determination to search for help (whether online, from colleagues, or from students) when there's something you can't figure out how to do. Here are a few suggestions from Maine for those venturing into the world of educational wikis: Start small, and then build. Grace Rubenstein is a senior producer at Edutopia.
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Different Ways to Use Blogs and Wikis with Students 1. Students can write posts about current events. This gives them the opportunity to read news stories, summarize them in their own words and then synthesize and evaluate those stories. From their analyses, they create new 'news' stories, filled with links to the original stories and reporters and with reflections and questions for further research. 2. Sometimes I use the posts for students to just post answers to questions about the novel, sometimes I ask them to read each other's posts and write a reflection about patterns, and sometimes they post questions that other students have to answer. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Mind42.com The Best Sources For Advice On Student Blogging Though my classes have done some limited blogging and communicating with other classes in our International Sister Classes Project, I’m seriously considering trying it more seriously with one of my classes next year. Because of that, I’ve been trying to learn more about other people’s experiences. I thought I’d in a short “The Best…” list the places I’ve found most helpful, and I’d certainly like to solicit other suggestions for additions to this list. Here are my choices for The Best Sources For Advice On Student Blogging: Sue Waters’ at The Edublogger (of course!) Silvia Tolisano at the Langwitches blog just this week began posting a series of Blogging Lesson Plans. Bill Ferriter at The Tempered Radical wrote a post about commenting on Voice Thread presentations, but it’s certainly applicable to commenting on blog posts, too. Rubrics To Evaluate Classroom Blogging from Enhancing Teaching and Learning offers a variety of useful rubrics. Here is a list of our class blogs.
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