Monday, September 27, 2010

Thing 8

I really enjoyed reading Wiki Wiki Teaching and reading about her experience using a wiki in the classroom.  It was such a good learning experience for the kids and it really caught on fire and made the kids catch on fire with a new learning tool.  I would like to eventually come up with a wiki that I can use with my Spanish speaking students especially in my heritage class. I think it would be great fun to be able to get the students to research their family history and their roots.
I totally enjoyed reading about other wiki projects.  They seem to have been so much fun to do and are so much fun to follow. The five that I read were very diverse. Code Blue was so cool because the Drs. gave information concerning their area of expertise and I learned a lot. I also thought it was neat to have different doctors points of view and everyone added informative commentaries to the wiki. In the Wolves Den it was nice to find the feature of a Table of Contents which included poll results, on going conversations, a Voki and educational resources available such as notes, lectures, videos, books, games and email. The wiki Schools of the Past was great to read and reminded me about of many things that were going on in the 50's and 60's. I liked the Thousands Project wiki because it was so diverse due to the diversity of questions being asked every month.  These were more fun to me than reading  blogs.

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