For those who do not know, a wiki is the style that wikipedia publishes in. You start with blank pages, and the users create the content. The idea in a classroom is that your students would create the content. A powerful benefit is that sites that host wikis keep all prior drafts within their system. You can refer to any previous drafts easily. A teacher can see what a student wrote, and have the entire draft history available.

I have thought of one thing I might try this coming year. I will do the pre-work to create pages for each class, and each student within the class. For small assignemtns, I will post a general question on the front page, students are to answer on their individual pages. For a longer assignment, I plan to have them write up their lab reports in this manner.

I look forward to seeing others who have better ideas than this, i really want to try it out.

It does seem like I will have to do alot of training of my students for this to work.

good luck!

You just type in a word in the box and press enter or click ok and it will load up lists of different word you just put in and their will be hyperlinks there to take to to different page form wikipedia.

I have not helpped a english teacher with computers before.