1. How do you effectively use wikis as a class assignment in k-12?
The two articles referring to wikis described what they are and gave general descriptions, they never really talked about how to implement them. In a high school environment, students need more structure than those in a college environment. Each time I have used a wiki, it has been for an assignment that there was either virtually no interaction and used as a blog or it looked like a jumbled mess. So, does anyone have ideas for implementing a more structured version of a wiki used for collaboration?
2. Should a blog be published?
It seemed odd to me that a teacher would go from a private journal where students could express themselves freely to considering making their personal blog public. Journals in high school tend to be extremely personal. They could potentially write about their parents’ divorce or the feeling after missing the final basket in the previous game, loosing the basketball game. I believe that if students really want to make it public, they can by opening a different account, but adolescents need a private outlet to discuss their feelings. What do you think?
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