How can a Wiki Help You?
Wikis are easy and free to use and allow students to interact and edit and publish to create a fun and cohesive environment. Teachers like using Wiki because students are given more control over a project’s outcome. You are encouraging them to be producers, rather than just consumers, of information. Teachers tend to lean to using the popular wiki sites Wikispaces.com, Wikidot.com and Pbworks.com and it's sometimes confused but can be used on google docs. Teachers are smart and have a pretty good idea of how to communicate and organize both students and people. It's kind of their job. Teachers have created some useful tips. There's a whole list so i'll just say most of it is pretty self explanatory if you are an adult or someone with a reading level above myself or any 5th grader. Set clear expectations, start small, ask for help, read other wikis, let the wiki work for you and collaborate. Other important things to note are how wikis can bring a good easy side to tough subjects that require basic info and needs to be distributed fast and easy. History, poetry, books, words, geography and tests. Now these are all things I've used wiki for including this blog post and lots of my classes. Wikis basically act as a mastery list for an entire field and can help students and educators see multiple viewpoints of a topic quickly. Wikis can be used as a crash course in many ways and most people rely on them for information even though it should be noted that the info can be misleading and sometimes not accurate since anyone is able to access them and edit the documents.
