Wikis are very useful instructional aides that can be used to actively involve your students in the co-operative learning process by allowing them to combine ideas and share them with the world. Wikis could be used by both teachers and students to improve classroom instruction by giving the teacher a way of assessing the children while they are able to write freely about presented topics while combining knowledge. This way, students learn from each other and the teacher is able to use that medium as a channel of overtime assessments rather than the pencil and paper assessments.
The piece produced for portfolio #7 was a Wiki based on the effects of humans on the environment and what we can do to help restore a balance to Earth. It is to be use as an instructional aide for the grade six level. One challenge faced when creating the piece was simply learning how to navigate the site and understanding in its entirety how Wikis work. This challenge was overcome by group co-operations and members working together: discussing the ideas about Wikis and relating information about tasks they were able to complete using the Wiki for the completion of this piece. The piece could be improved by putting more detailed information on each page and by finding other ways of making the pages attractive - such as the general layout of the pages.
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