Wikis are an incredibly useful tool for classroom use. Many teachers turn to wikis as a means to distribute information to students and parents. Others use wikis as a classroom website to post homework help, interactive activities, weekly schedules, and more. Such is the case for Ms. Genta’s Science Wiki, which serves as her classroom website. On this wiki, Ms. Genta’s provides information for students and parents, Power Point presentations, science games and adventures, and other fun resources for students to explore science. Voted Second Best Educational Wiki in 2009, Ms. Genta’s website is well designed and maintained. A wiki is great for a classroom website because they are extremely easy to edit and use for teachers, students, and parents. I enjoyed the teacher’s contributions to the wiki, and I think that her use of science resources really helps to make the subject fun for students.
A second great use for wikis is as a place for students to compile notes and review concepts. The classroom wiki of the Data Management course, MDM4U1@FMG, is a wiki in which students summarize their class notes. The goal of the wiki is to evolve into an online textbook. This wiki is being produced to promote better understanding of certain ideas and concepts, many of which are mathematical in nature. I believe this is a great idea because it allows the students to collaborate in summarizing information. It also helps students to synthesize information in order to determine which is most helpful to the intended audience. During high school, I contributed to a wiki in a similar way to this in a physics class. I enjoyed the experience and feel that it definitely helped me study the information. The MDM4U1 wiki also has a great discussion board area where students can discuss topics and give and receive help with the material.
I can see myself using wikis in both ways in my future classroom! I am excited to have students share and collaborate with each other in mathematics!
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