What+i+have+done+with+my+wiki?

What I have done with my Wiki.

How did the kids react? The kids loved using the wiki space, kids just love to use computers in general. The classroom teacher doesn't use the computers in her room because she doesn't know how to use them effectively. I found just getting them to use the wiki to link them to other sites, read information was really handy and also got the kids engaged just because it was new and exciting.

How did the classroom teacher feel? At first the classroom teacher was hesitant about my ideas and wanting to use the internet to teach my science lessons, but her opinions changed as she saw how much the students became engaged and involved. She liked how i could have so much on the page and how the students were able to do what i wanted without wasting time trying to find the clip on youtube for example.

What issues I had. I didn't have any issues whilst teaching with my wiki... but the first wiki i put together for an assignment last year had all the information on the wiki, that had taken me ages to put together on the science topic i was looking at teaching with some great resources. I went to use it for this lesson but half of the work i had done had disapeered, i am not sure why this happened but it did, so this would be a major issue if it was a recurring issue.

How did the wiki’s enhance learning?

Would others be able to set one up easily?

Technology seems to come easy to me and what i assume others could achieve easily often proves to be wrong, but in saying this i believe that building a wiki would be quite easy to others. So long as they are willing to have a go and keep an opened mind about it. My classroom teacher in fact had a go at making one, she finds technology difficult and i must say she did quite a good job. she said it was challenging at first but once she persevered and played around with it it became rather easy.