Thing 15

Having a wiki can be a great tool to provide feedback and resources to students and educators. Within the idea of providing feedback and resources are collaboration among students-educators, and educators-educators as a vehicle. Teachers can have students focus on a subject and have each student add not only their knowledge and opinion on the subject but also a link indicating where they received their information or to lead classmates to a site they believe would be of interest. Educators can simply post ideas for major projects, summarize discoveries in the class room, problems that were addressed,etc, etc. All of this collaboration can be categorized by grade level as a means to providing a link that can be helpful to parents, and other educators. What I found interesting on the wikis that were posted is that it easy for people to build on and share ideas, and how it is set up like a book, with titles instead of pages linking you to the next "topic or story" being the only difference from an actual book.