1. Supports planning, collaboration, and critical thinking skills.
2. Facilitates inquiry.
3. Encourages personal accountability.
4. Provides practice in peer editing and reviewing.
5. Empowers through shared authorship.
6. Encourages responsible writing.
7. Deters plagiarism by showing process.
8. Engages and motivates students.
9. Supports constructivist learning.
10. Provides practice in validating information. (Berger, 99)
Source: Berger, Pam, and Sally Trexler. Choosing Web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching in a digital world. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited, 2010. Print.
How can a wiki be used as a course website and a place for student interaction (posting, etc.)? If I link assignments to a course specific wiki page, my students will be able to edit the page, correct? Is this too risky because they could edit homework assignments (instructions and deadlines) and documents I linked to the page? As the creator, can I lock certain content and leave other content open to change?
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ReplyDeleteYou could make your home page(class website)locked for editing so that only you can alter it, and keep other pages open for student input and content creation. That will eliminate the risk factor of altering asssignments. Also if you PDF your documents before posting them to the wiki, students will be unable to alter them as well.