Wikis for education use

I heard about wikis in the past few months and thought that they are fascinating ideas.  As with all new technology, I try to see if it can be of any use in my work.  I've found blogging to be crucial in my development as a teacher - offering me space to reflect on my work, but also get valuable feedback from teachers across the country.

Now, I'm getting into using wikis for various purposes.  I wrote in my last post about using a wiki for the ELA department in my school and our venture in creating a true vision and resource for the department.  Now, I'm using a wiki for my lesson planning.  Such a simple idea, but it makes writing lesson plans a bit easier since I can do it anywhere there's Internet.  The added benefit is that I can make the wiki public and offer my lesson plans to others with little added effort.  I only have a few lessons on there now, but after using it for a while I can see it being a library of lesson plans.  Imagine if whole groups of teachers did the same thing the amount of lesson plans we could have online and available for sharing.

Comments

[nobodyknows]

Wow! What a great idea (again!)!

I totally stole this, started my own (just to play around with the idea and get all my junk in one place), and can't wait to fill it up with my lessons and such. It'll be a nice sister site to what I'm already doing, because it will give me time to piece together the steps I've taken along the way to where I am.

Otherwise, I'm not much of a planner. I'm more of a winger.

thanks again, Tim.