Working with Wiki's!
Coach Erwin's U.S. History class has spent the past week developing a wiki page for the Civil Rights Movement. They will use this wiki page to collaborate with others in the class and to organize their information. Coach Erwin has also utilized wiki's in his Health courses. Erwin is not the only one using wiki's as an innovative tool to increase academic achievement and content area knowledge. Coach Hilton has utilized wiki's in World History and "Fitz" will be putting a wiki together shortly for Earth & Space Science. To check out one of Erwin's wiki's go to www.coacherwin.pbwiki.com
A wiki is a place that allows users to freely create and edit the page content. It supports hyperlinks and has a simple text for creating new pages and cross links between internal pages.
The first wiki site was created in 1995 for the Portland Pattern Repository. It now hosts tens of thousands of pages that are accessible to anyone to edit and review.
Here are the 5 reasons why Wikis are used:
1. Develop an informed voice by informing other interested readers.
2. Justify and defend our research in a public setting.
3. Increase awareness of and engagement in essential topics and expectations in our courses.
4. Collaborate with others
5. Engage in authentic tasks
For a link to a video that better describes the Wiki:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
Andrea Noltkamper
Amanda Turkington
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