I have been impressed by the power of wikis and what useful tools they can be both for teachers collaboration work and also students creating and encoding.
I also know by one of the earlier instructors in our site that, " We can develop a wiki that will serve as a teacher website in which teachers can find program information, necessary forms,and professional development information, as well as websites and other instructional materials that may be helpful in their practice." We can also collect students' published works, newsletters, their journals as well as their collaborating, sharing and resources.
As I said in my earlier post, I did asked my students to start their Blogs and they are already doing amazing jobs. I just can't wait to see how everything goes on their class wikis.
What I have in mind, is keeping everything simple. Having a basic template and making the navigation through pages as easy as possible. I want them to be creating more content rather than getting stuck on the look and feel of the page. I am also going to create one main wiki for class, asking students to do the publishing process while we are in class, so everyone has an idea of where things are.
More importantly, I think , we need to come up with the goals and objectives of our class publishing a wiki. So, a rubric might be a good idea or scaffolding thoughts can also help.
What ARE some objectives of developing a wiki for an ESOL class?!!
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