- FHS Wolves Den: This one initially caught my attention because of the grade-level focus and the multi-academic areas (English and history). Wouldn't that be interesting to host a wiki for cross-curricular classes....for example English and history classes collaborating on National History Day projects?
- Flat Classroom Project: This I might be interested in! Imagine communicating, collaborating with other classes across the country, across the continents! This one I will investigate more before the January 2009 deadline.
- Holocaust Wiki Project: Intriguing. It looks like a "real" wikipedia page. This, I think, would interest the students, for one might see this as an opportunity to be read by "real" people. Good idea.
Wikis are a central part of my classes. Mrs. G Info serves as our class filing cabinet. I love this wiki! Metaphorically, this wiki is my pacifier! It comforts me, soothes me. This wiki is housed by pbworks...the wiki of my choice.
Wikispaces (this one is prettier...but not quite as friendly) hosts my individual class wikis:
- Cafe Pre-AP
- Cafe English 11
- Cafe Newspaper
- Cafe Methods (Lyon College Secondary English Methods)
This fall in the methods class I promoted wikis and asked the class participants to create a wiki in which to house their portfolio for this class (and to begin their own online file cabinet). One chose pbworks; the other chose wikispaces. I thought that was interesting; this just reiterates that one should choose what works best for him/her. No one method is THE best, for a method is only as good as the energy behind the person using it. Maybe?
Have to say "thanks" again to Lisa Huff, who introduced me to wikis some time ago. This tool has completely changed how I organize my classes. Very cool!
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