What is a Wiki?
A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. "Wiki wiki" means "quickly" in Hawaiian.
How we will be using the class wiki.
We will be using this wiki to collaboratively brainstorm ideas or generate a product together
How can you use a wiki in your teaching?
Check out how other teachers are using "free" wiki sites with their students and in their classrooms - http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2005/12/wiki-wiki-teaching-art-of-using-wiki.html
You can create YOUR OWN FREE wiki.dot site and start collaborative projects forys to go abou your students - http://www.wikidot.com/new-site - login first and then create the site
How do I get STARTED with my group for EDUC 400 or 401?
Click on your primary teaching level from the navigator bar on the left side
_I can use a Wiki in teaching because there are so many different ideas and ways to go about doing the same thing in teaching. Its a way to collaborate and work together to come up with different ideas and plans. Also, its a way to discuss idealogies, or processes when teaching.