Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They’re ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction.
Resource Creation
Using these ideas, your students can collaboratively create classroom valuables.
- Virtual field trips: a field trip, and get your student to share images and information about the location.
- Create presentations: Instead of using traditional presentation software, put presentations on a wiki.
- Write a Wikibook: Collaboratively write a reference book that others can use.
- Study guides: Ask students to create study guides for a specific part of the unit.
- Readers’ guides: Create readers’ guides to share their idea of the key issues covered in class.
- Glossary: Get your class to create a glossary of terms adding definitions and images.
- Class encyclopedia: Ask your class to create an "encyclopedia" on a topic, adding useful information that can be built upon through the years.
- Create exploratory projects: If you’re teaching a new subject, ask your students to collect and share information in the wiki so that you can learn together.
Student Participation
Get your students involved.
- Exam review: Encourage students to share review notes and other helpful pieces of information on your class wiki.
- Peer review: Allow students to draft their papers in a wiki, then ask other students to comment it.
- Student portfolios: Assign portfolio pages to each of your students, and allow them to display and discuss their work.
Group Projects
Allow wikis to facilitate group work
- Group authoring: By asking groups to use central documents in a wiki, you can ensure that everyone’s documentation will be uniform.
- Organize ideas: Allow group members to post their ideas in a wiki, and you’ll cut down on duplicate ideas, while at the same time allowing them to build upon the ideas.
- Track projects: With wikis, it’s easy for students to see which tasks have been completed and which ones still need to be fulfilled.
- Track participation: Assign a wiki page to a group project, and then individual pages for each student to show their participation.
Student Interaction
Get your students to work together
- Collect data: Use central documents to make sure that data collection is uniform and easy to manage.
- Mock-debate: Pit two class candidates against each other and perform a debate on your wiki.
- Study buddy matching: Let students match themselves up into study buddy pairs.
- Multi-author story: Start a creative writing unit, and get your students to write a short story together, each writing a small amount of the story.
- Choose your own story: A twist on the multi-author story could be a choose differnt diagnosis of a patient where each student branches out into a different path.
- Share reviews: Post articles form journals, encouraging students to share what they thought about them.
For the Classroom
Use your wiki to create spaces that are special to your class.
- Classroom FAQ: Make it a class project to create an FAQ that will help new students and those that will come in years later.
- Calendar: Create a calendar on the wiki and encourage students to add their own personally important dates.
- Hall of fame: Highlight students’ exceptional achievements on the wiki.
- Wiki usage policies: Encourage students to draft rules and policies for the class.
Community
Reach out to the community with e resources
- Community FAQ: Ask students to create an FAQ for their community, then pass it on to your next group of students.
Other
Here are even more useful ways to improve your classroom interaction
- Use wikis as a hub: Any time a student creates anything online, ask them to link to it or upload it to the wiki so that everyone can use it.
- Make website creation easier for students: Using a wiki platform, students don’t have to worry about web design, so they can focus on content instead.
- Track assignments: If you ask students to put their research on wikis, you can check in on their progress to make sure they’re on track
- Teacher collaboration: Work with instructors to create course work
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