Love to My Wiki - Workshop 7

I have written quite a bit about my classroom wiki site. I introduced it at the end of last year for one class’s use in a final group project. This year, I tried using it in all my classes. Yesterday, I proposed the idea as a school-wide effort, that all teachers should have websites. This class’s timing was a helpful tool in that two of my cohort members also worked on websites. I had their models to show the administration. I have already seen a huge number of affective outcomes from the use of the wiki. Students who are creatively and graphically inclined have been able to learn elements of basic graphic design, and to try their skills out on web page design. Others, who have technical skills, have learned how to post a video or pictures to a website. In fact, students figured out how to shrink the size of one video we created so it would upload to the page. They showed me how to do it. Through these technological tools, students achieved the bigger content goals of and English class – how to analyze and present text, how visual media is a powerful medium of communication, how to reflect on past work and to set goals for future work. I anticipate next year in new wiki experiments.