The first wiki I
found was priestsic6.wikispaces.com. It is a 6th grade
class wiki. The wiki's set up is very easy to navigate. The teacher
has a page for each subject area. When I looked at the Literacy page,
it was all about poetry. What I found very neat was the fact that she
gave the first 2 lines of a poem, then the student added 2 lines of
their own. I love that she added pictures of her own classroom. All
through the page you see students' works of poetry and literacy.
The second wiki I
looked at was a collaborative storytelling wiki where students in
grades 3 and 4 got creative and completed a story about a tennis ball
(terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com). This wiki showed the
creativeness of the students while still keeping them in the
parameter of a specific assignment.
Both wikis had
students adding onto a story/poem. It shows their creativity and
allows them to work together collaboratively to reach a completed
story/poem. The wiki about the tennis ball was for younger students.
They didn't have full reign of how the story went. They clicked on
certain options, then when it came time to add a line or
conversation, they were able to add it. The wiki about poetry was for
middle school students. They were to build on the previous person's
lines to continue the poem.
I like the literacy page in wiki 1. The students not only collaborated right in the classroom by putting the post-its with couplets on the wall and floor, but they got to be creative by adding their own couplet to the poem on this literacy page. Poetry can be a challenge for some students. Letting the students create their own couplet was a great way to engage them in the creation of this type of poem. This is a great way to build up to creating a complete poem on their own at a later time.
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