In my previous post, I expressed concern about the difficulty of creating a wiki. I saw that Anne Baird, the creator of a Technology Wiki, failed to create a visually stimulating wiki. I made the assumption that her technology background meant that she should would strive to make a technologically superior wiki... I was wrong. The creation of a wiki is actually quite easy. Just messing around, I started a decent foundation for my own classroom wiki. I was happy to see that it was extremely easy and intuitive to create a multiple page wiki. For my Spanish I class, I elected to use a google calendar. I like that I can update my calendar on google and have it update automatically on my wiki.
After about an hour of configuring my wiki, I decided to call it quits. Before investing any more time in its creation, I have a few things that I would like to think about: Will students use my wiki? Will students use my wiki responsibly? Would it be redundant to create a blog and a wiki? Which would be more beneficial?
I think the ultimate answer to my question is to create a website that I can maintain a blog and wiki. The blog would serve as a good source to communicate classroom happenings, while the wiki would provide an interactive workspace. The website would serve as the host for each, while also adding a more logical place to maintain a classroom schedule. In the next 23 Things go around, it may be useful to learn to use Google Sites, rather than 3 separate RSS explorations.
No comments:
Post a Comment