Wiki’s in the Classroom for Collaborative Learning

Wiki's in the Classroom for Collaborative Learning

When I was first learning to use wiki last semester, I was very frustrated. I was completely lost on how to develop and create a page.

        So I did some research, a wiki is a website or blog space that is collaboratively edited by a group of individuals. When creating a wiki page any individual who is invited to participate in the wiki has the right to edit and add creativity as well as any other thoughts to the page.

In my class last semester there was a group project. In this project we were assigned a time period in education history. This project showed me how to add and edit information. As well as adding a voki. Voki's are avatars that help motivate students, and gain lesson comprehension. 

I believe that wiki's are a great learning tool for all students and teachers.

Teaching with Wiki

This is a great video to show that making a Wiki for classroom collaboration can be fun and exciting. Wiki's make students more organized and more willing to express themselves.

Wiki's allow students and teachers to:

• Use technology in meaningful ways in their classrooms
• Collaborate with peers
• Publish writing and other creative forms of work
• Receive feedback both inside and outside of the classroom

     "Working together on a wiki becomes a way for students to understand the processes by which knowledge is generated, evaluated, and revised by groups of individuals  in business, government, and many other fields" (Maloy 229).

-Wiki's are a web 2.0 tool.

-A web 2.0 tool is about "revolutionary new ways of creating, collaborating, editing and sharing user-generated content online" (Web 2.0).

-Wiki's can be used again and again in classrooms, from teacher to student

-Wiki's are easy to set up, easy to manage as well as easy to use

Overall, I learned that Wiki's can provide an abundant amount of information. Teachers and students have all tools necessary to make a classroom interactive and interesting for all types of learners, whether the student be a verbal, visual, or auditory learner.

Works Cited

Maloy, Robert W. Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.

• This text book gave me a lot of information regarding Wiki's in the Classroom for Collaborative Learning. Maloy and the rest of the authors who contributed in this book did a nice job on covering content. My information I received came from pages 228-229.

Teaching with WIKI. Film. 29 Sep 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdOKUeT0O-o>.

• This video was a good introduction about what a wiki is, and why they are used in the classrooms.

"Web 2.0 Tools." Discovery Education Web2013 :. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2013. <http://web2012.discoveryeducation.com/web20tools.cfm>.

• Using this resource was a way for me to realize what a Web 2.0 tool was. Before I researched the meaning, I had no idea what the term meant.