Wikis

I have been a lover of wikis for some time. In my current role as a Teacher Leader for Technology, I often use wikis as vehicles of instructional technology for teachers and students. The wiki I am sharing is one I used for a summer workshop for teachers. We explored various web 2.0 tools through the lens of a wiki. I also like to use wikis with students for many reasons. The first being security. Many of our students are not old enough to have email addresses in order to sign up for tools, and this can be frustrating. Wikispaces allows teachers to create password-protected student accounts, and the wiki itself can be created privately, so the student identity and privacy become non-issues. Here is a link to one of the many wikis I have created: http://easyonlinetools.wikispaces.com/

As part of the wikis lab, I added a page to Wikipedia about my school, Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School. Before I created one, there was no dedicated page to GBMS on wikipedia. On Wikipedia, I added some factual information about GBMS’s location and its history as a school. Here is a link to the GBMS page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks_Middle_School