Wikis are cool  - and easier than you might think

For a handout introducing wikis. As the author, Tim Davies, explains,

"A wiki is a website that can be quickly edited by visitors – creating a collaborative, organically developed, online resource”

Interested in comparing other wikis - check this out.  PB wiki is the first one I used - and generally considered the easies one to create, use, etc.

See Presentation on wikis prepared for the KC Professional Development Conference

Workshop materials

• Application
• Research

Examples: Please share your story. 

My precomp students created their own sites for a reading log excercise from the Anker text- and a teacher site can link them all together like this

• On Why Are We So Angry
• On Passage into Manhood
• On Uniforms Rule
• Feedback on audiotexts: PreComp  anonymity can have advantages for in class assesment. 
• Thesis: Compare Contrast  (it's a collection of their initial thesis statements with my responses).

I've discovered that while this works wonderfully in an asynchronous setting, if everyone is working in a classroom at the same time - Wiki's aren't so effective.  Only one person can work on the wiki at a time - and people tend to want to edit in the wiki editor itself (cutting and pasting from Word is a pain and doesn't always work) Maybe better for collaborative homework better than in class hands on applications. GD