Using the wiki for teaching and learning
Having planned the way in which you will use the wiki in your classroom you now need to carry out your plan. In this part of the course you will spend time in your school and reflect on the impact of the use of a wiki on the learning and teaching. At a practical level you will observe what the learners did with the wiki and what conclusions and recommendations you would make for others. You will discuss this in the forum after you have carried out your plan.
Activity 9 Using the wiki
The objective for this course activity is to use wiki with learners and reflect on what happens.
You should now carry out your plan and use the wiki with the group or groups you identified. As you do so you should be minded of your purpose and intended gains and the evidence you intend to collect.
No passwords are required and it is easy to start a single page wiki by typing a name for your wiki in the field 'Create or Load a Workspace'.
It is a good idea to maintain a learning journal to help you record observations and reflections systematically. Mark Smith gives advice on how to do this in his article on writing and keeping journals [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] . This can be done online using your personal blog in your shared activities or other tools. Alternatively, simply use a notebook where you can collect observations down one side of a double page and your reflections on the other.
Planning to use a wiki