What areas could you use a Wiki in your school? What are the challenges you would face for each of those purposes. What support is in place or would be needed that would make Wiki adoption easier? A wiki can be used in a high school district in many ways. It can be used to relay information to the students and the parents. It would be a great resource for the staff to use as well. For the students, it would be a great place to have all necessary items and information needed for class in one place. Students could refer back to class notes and presentations as well as recipes for lab. Students could also collaborate on projects through the wiki. I am still working on that portion, but it seems as if they can see what other people have added as can I. It would be a great way to grade each group member on their contributions. If a wiki is capable of that, still trying to figure that out it would be amazing! Allowing students to contribute to discussion posts would be a great way to get their feedback on the lesson and evaluate the lab experience. Another great use for the wiki would be to relay information to the parents of our early childhood education program. There is a weekly newsletter that could be posted on the wiki for parents to review as well as ask questions. Other parents may have the same questions and all is clarified on one response from the teacher. It would be a great way for students to work together to plan cohesive lessons for the preschool as well. The students who become teachers for the preschool students could also share lessons with artifacts that worked with other students in other sections and at other campuses in the district. Many of our students take the class because they look to major in early childhood education in college and using the wiki will allow them the opportunity to collaborate as educators do! I myself plan to use the wiki I have created as a resource for my department so that we can collaborate even when we are not meeting together. As I am working on the curriculum for our new courses, I want feedback as I am working on it, so that my deadline is reached. This can be done across the district for staff collaboration. For each of these the concerns I have are time and money. The students would need computers in class to be able to work and collaborate. Teachers would need time to learn the program so that they could then teach the students. Staff development costs money and adds to one more thing teachers have to learn and teach.
A wiki can be used in a high school district in many ways. It can be used to relay information to the students and the parents. It would be a great resource for the staff to use as well.
For the students, it would be a great place to have all necessary items and information needed for class in one place. Students could refer back to class notes and presentations as well as recipes for lab. Students could also collaborate on projects through the wiki. I am still working on that portion, but it seems as if they can see what other people have added as can I. It would be a great way to grade each group member on their contributions. If a wiki is capable of that, still trying to figure that out it would be amazing! Allowing students to contribute to discussion posts would be a great way to get their feedback on the lesson and evaluate the lab experience.
Another great use for the wiki would be to relay information to the parents of our early childhood education program. There is a weekly newsletter that could be posted on the wiki for parents to review as well as ask questions. Other parents may have the same questions and all is clarified on one response from the teacher. It would be a great way for students to work together to plan cohesive lessons for the preschool as well. The students who become teachers for the preschool students could also share lessons with artifacts that worked with other students in other sections and at other campuses in the district. Many of our students take the class because they look to major in early childhood education in college and using the wiki will allow them the opportunity to collaborate as educators do!
I myself plan to use the wiki I have created as a resource for my department so that we can collaborate even when we are not meeting together. As I am working on the curriculum for our new courses, I want feedback as I am working on it, so that my deadline is reached. This can be done across the district for staff collaboration.
For each of these the concerns I have are time and money. The students would need computers in class to be able to work and collaborate. Teachers would need time to learn the program so that they could then teach the students. Staff development costs money and adds to one more thing teachers have to learn and teach.