SJS Teacher

I created my first wiki page yesterday. It was just a simple page within a larger wiki site (sjsweb20-sandbox) but it was a good experience. It was no different from setting up a website in googlepages, say. Unlike googlepages though, multiple users could edit and manipulate the information on the page, as long as that permission is granted. I think googledocs does the same thing as well. The main difference is that google docs are not sites that non-users could visit. Wikipages are viewable by non-users and editable by permitted users.

I am already thinking of a good use for wikispaces in my classroom. Since I teach chemistry as well and the students often do research and presentations, we could set up a classroom wiki site where all their research and presentations will reside. They could be arranged in groups and collaborate/comment on each other’s wikis — a form of peer evaluation that they are used to doing anyway.

I guess wikis would be a more useful thing for me in my science classroom. Blogs… hmm….I don’t know… maybe let the students use it to detail their experiences — more like the Conclusion and Evaluation part of their reports.