Tools/Wikispaces

Share knowledge; share the load of sharing it = Wikispaces

Tool Description WIKISPACES (www.wikispaces.com) allows you to make a website like Wikipedia. The wiki 'concept' is core to sharing knowledge. You can write your own information pages and that doesn't mean writing a whole encyclopaedia. Unlike writing a blog post, where you would see people's opinions in a list below, what you type into a 'wiki' can be rewritten by others and edited mercilessly. (And that can be a measure of something very good going on in a class). Your choice of topic could be as wide as providing notes for an entire course or providing a space for the class to record experience of a field trip. The general idea is the last person to edit a page thinks they've the last word - which may take some getting used to. 'Wiki-bullying' could happen, but with that in mind, you could encourage your pupils to collaborate^(tool) by editing each other's work and so engage in peer assessment^(ta). Incidentally, to help that collaboration, there are ways to have more than one person edit a page at once. ^(edit)

Teaching Approach. Encourage your pupils to collaborate^(tool) and engage in peer assessment^(ta) by editing each other's work ^(edit)

Tool details
Title	Share knowledge; share the load of sharing it
Topic	[[Topics/Webdesign|Webdesign]],  [[Topics/Wiki|Wiki]]
Licence / Cost / Platform	Web tool
Subject / Categories	ToolInfo, Wiki, Webdesign, Wikis
Teaching Ideas / Links
Link	www.wikispaces.com