Other+uses+for+wikis

Wikis can also be used for journal discussions as well as a place for students to post their writing samples and have their peers edit them. Another great way to use a wiki is as a class project. Each student is given a part of a larger scale theme or research topic and each student has to create a page with their findings. They could also comment on another student's piece of information on his or her page and add to it as well. A study guide can be made using a wiki that also implores each student to either create their own page or collaborate on a page and create study guide questions that the whole class can use. The teacher can also post study guide questions and use the wiki as a place for the students to take notes on those guides. Since I am an English teacher, an especially beneficial idea would be literature circles. Each group can create a page and I could post discussion questions according to the book th at group is reading. They can comment on them as well as post their own questions that another group member can answer. It keeps them all engaged and feel a part of the learning process, since they are helping to create the wiki page.