Why use wikis in the classsroom?

1. Enable team members to work on an assignment at any time, from any location with an Internet connection.
2. Encourage student involvement
3. Offer a powerful yet flexible collaborative communication tool for developing content-specific Web sites.
4. Provide a central place for groups to form around specific topics
5. Provide students with direct(and immediate)access to a site's content,which is crucial in group editing or other collaborative project activities
6. Show the evolution of thought processes as students interact with the site and its contents
7. Promote pride of authorship and ownership in a team's activities
8. Showcase student work
9. Encourage collaboration on notes
10. Promote concept introduction and exploration

Taken from: Crane, Beverley E. Using Web 2.0 tools in the K-12 classroom. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2009. Print.