WEEK 7 - WIKIS

SANDBOX WIKI
I added two entries to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki. They were my favourite books, of course Steig Larson’s trilogy and my favourite TV shows, which included: Lost, The Office, Seinfeld, The Amazing Race, Survivor, just to name a few. I haven’t had too much time to watch these lately as I’ve been busy blogging!

DISCOVERING WIKIS
I've discovered that 'Wiki' is the Hawaiian word meaning 'quick'. The biggest wiki we all know about is of course Wikipedia, and althought it has so much information stored in one spot that it boggles the mind (who put it all there?), students tend to go there for lots of their research. It can be the 'starting' point for research but as it is a 'wiki' it is not always correct in it's information because anyone can add their own information to Wikipedia.

Wow... check out http://pgscreading.pbworks.com/ this site impressed me so much as to how to use wikis effectively and also how teachers and students are becoming so innovative at using the Web 2.0 technologies to enhance their school work. Combining Animoto and Powerpoint storyboard children as young as Grade 4 can produce fantastic video clips on their wikis. Using Booktrailers students are making their own book trailers (like movie trailers) to review books... but wait there’s more... click on the ‘sidebar’ and learn about 60 second recap, Toon Doos, and much, much more.