Jul 25 2008
The Use of Wiki’s across the content areas
What uses do wiki’s have in our classrooms? I see the possiblities for middle and high school students where the emphasis on team work and collaboration are huge socialization pieces that need to be taught and modelled.
I have surfed through Classroom 2.0 and find this web site very useful in answering all types of questions regarding interactive planning units in science and writing projects that are incremental in nature and encourage group authorship. I became a member of this site and have really expanded my learning this way.
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In our litigious U.S. society I think it prudent to encourage all school personnel setting up a blog/wiki to be careful and maintain some level of moderation control over content that is posted. It is very interesting to compare differences between blogging environments in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries compared to the United States. My observation is that the web environment can be more open in other countries, due largely to differences in how litigious the society is. I’m not condoning this aspect of U.S. society at this point, but just pointing out it is real and no one wants to have a blogging project “blow up” with a bad incident.