Prior to TPTE I had loosely heard of wikis. Of course I knew
about Wikipedia, and while watching different shows (Lost stands out to me the
most since it was so confusing) I would stumble across different sites that
would have –pedia at the end of it. I came to generalize a wiki as a site that
had a theme or searchable option. After being introduced to Wikis in this
class, they made a whole lot more sense and I began to see how useful they
could be in a classroom.
This website was extremely useful and friendly to use. I
really enjoyed the scroll over feature on the
main page. Although I felt familiar with all the topics, it was really
quick and easy to simply scroll over the tabs and be able to refresh my memory
on some topics, and get new ideas for others.
In some ways, I’m not sure if would be able to really use
Wikis in my classroom, as I plan to teacher Pre-School. I do tend to use
Wikipedia occasionally when the children are unfamiliar with a term or object
and I want to give them a clear definition (before rewording it in
developmentally appropriate terms of course), and also for when I want to show
them pictures of things they likely haven’t seen before, or just to provide a
quick reference.
I believe a wiki in my class would be really helpful to keep
in communication with parents. Uploading the class schedule, future projects or
fieldtrips, along with a page for ideas from parents could be useful. Giving
each child a page and uploading photos of them during play time and art
projects would be a neat way to keep parents up to date in what’s going on in
the classroom. Of course I would do something like this only if the parent’s
were okay with photos of their child being online and I would be sure to look
into privacy settings.
No comments:
Post a Comment