{"id":5892,"date":"2010-06-02T19:04:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T23:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2010-06-02T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T23:05:48","slug":"should-you-use-a-wiki-for-teaching-and-which-one-from-matthew-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/06\/02\/should-you-use-a-wiki-for-teaching-and-which-one-from-matthew-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you use a wiki for teaching (and which one?) — from Matthew Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should you use a wiki for teaching (and which one?) <\/strong><\/a>— from Matthew Allen<\/p>\n

Yes, we use wikis in our teaching, in two ways. First, some of the students naturally set up wikis to work on collaborative projects or similar without us telling them to \u2013 we leave that up to them! They also use other technologies, such as Ning and similar networking sites\/services and, of course, simpler forms of communication and collaboration. Wikis perhaps are suited only to some kinds of people for this task?<\/p>\n

Second, we run a unit of study in which students are required to author their first assignment in a wiki \u2013 but not collaboratively (they look at others, but don\u2019t edit). Then, their second main assignment \u2013 a group report \u2013 must be online and while we provided an alternative publishing space (openzine.com) they didn\u2019t like it and so all, I think, ended up using a wiki. This year (semester 2) we will require them to use a wiki.<\/p>\n

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So, in short, you can and in some cases should use wikis in teaching. I think the most important affordances of wikis are as follows.<\/p>\n