Wiki

Technology Blog Assignment - Wiki

In this module I learned all about wikis.  I spent time exploring different wiki sites and creating my first wiki.  Wikis are great web 2.0 tools for collaboration. The flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com is a perfect example of the potential wikis have in education. This wiki has amassed numerous contributors and collaborators that share their thoughts and ideas using multiple sources of media.  It is such an elaborate project that I found myself overwhelmed and distracted as I explored the many facets of the wiki.
While I really like the tremendous potential of the wiki,I am a little apprehensive about using them in my classroom, or should I say with my younger students.  

As part of the IEASC program, we created a PBWiki where we posted a flipped teaching unit that we created for our students.  We addressed how we would get our students to explore and then apply what they learned in the flipped lesson. The experience demonstrated how easy it is to use a PBworks wiki. PBworks is a safe place for teachers and students to collaborate on lessons or projects. 

I chose to use wikispace to create my wiki.  As I was developing my wiki, I created it with my senior forensic students in mind.  The course requires that they complete numerous collaborative lab activities.  My wiki space can be used as a place where they can share their results, reflections, any media they record, develop or collect, as well as posting their collaborative lab reports.  Using a wiki space in this manner will meet the NETS-S standard 2, communication and collaboration. I created the wiki, tolmanforensics, and set up a page for the blood spatter lab they recently completed.

My wikispace