I was looking at Mr. Monson’s Fifth Grade Wiki: Thousand Things from the long list of educational wiki's. (http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis) He posts a question each month for people to answer and hopes to collect 1,000 things on his list. This got me to thinking about creating a second grade wiki that was slightly more substantial: create a wiki where people can suggest their favorite word for the month. For example, in September the class could collect interesting verbs. This provides an open ended use of wiki's. That would benefit the children's vocabulary and word choice.
Another idea would be to set up a wiki on insect information partnered with another classroom in our district or the state. The students could work in teams to add, edit, and is still useful information about the insects all of their choice.
A hurdle that might stand in the way is the amount of time that the wiki would take to manage. Computer access and time in which to work on the wiki's, would be an additional hurdle. Would these wiki be of benefit to my students short of them participating in a wiki? Fortunately my administrator has also taken these 23 Things online, and I'm certain would be open to the idea of establishing a wiki with my students. Is it worth the fight? Well, if using a wiki benefits my students learning, the answer is, of course “yes.’
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