Working With Wikispaces

My experience in creating my wiki was great! It is very easy and self explanatory. I think it is a great way to obtain a synthesized understanding of certain topics and come up with various view points and understanding on posted issues or topics. I used the wiki to generate a discussion on how people have actually used wikis in their classrooms. I am interested to see the different ways you can incorporate them because they seem easy and very useful!

A wiki is different from a blog because it is not something that is posted for people to read and comment on. It is to be altered be others who want to create a general understand of a topic. Yes, discussions can be mandated and used, but you do not leave comments and share your opinions. You can actually change information to form your opinions and understandings

I think you can use wikis for many different ways. Specifically with students, it may be interesting to use wikis to post a general idea of a science topic for example. Students can go in on their own time and update, change, and ultimately create an understanding that builds off of or replaces others ideas. With the teacher being the ultimate creator, they can monitor the edits. However, being able to change what other write could spark ideas they may have never noticed or thought of.