Wikis can provide a place where students collaborate online and display the new content they create. This type of activity comes closest to what I would like to do or encourage at my school. It’s a use of the Internet that is freely available and offers exciting possibilities for learners and teachers.
In the links given at the CSLA 2.0 page I did not see many examples of wikis used in this way. Only one, The English 10 Literature Wiki, offered a partial example. The page was created by the instructor, and all of the archived versions were posted by the same person, the instructor. Perhaps because of privacy issues, the assignment wikis created by groups of students in response to the directions given on the main page were not available.
The very best examples of wikis used very well by students for creating and sharing content is at Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. I had the chance to see some of this work during the 2006 & 2007 tech conferences offered by Nobles faculty, but could not get into that portion of their site now. Nobles must have an intranet on which all this work exists. The potential for students to continue to learn and create content after they leave the classroom is so exciting, and Nobles operates this way every day.
I think the primary thing it takes is a vision. Joyce Valenza has spoken of such activity in a recent podcast on EdTechTalk, but I did not see examples on her teacherlibrarian wiki.
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