Early on in the semester, I posted about using Wikis in the classroom as a great way to incorporate collaboration and teamwork while using web-based tools. A little later on in the semester, I was able to take part in a project using a wiki to create a resource space with other future English teachers.
In our Resource Wiki, we included links to outside resources like Purdue Online Writing Lab and similar sources that we think would be useful to both ourselves as English teachers and to our future English students. We also included links to some online activities, inquiry-based activities, and other prospective lesson plan goodies. The Resource Wiki was separated into different categories to make navigation easier for the users.
As we each worked on the Wiki and posted our contributions, the thing became this truly great wealth of materials for both us as teachers and our future students. This is definitely something that could be recreated within a department at a school. I think that using a resource wiki with colleagues would be an excellent way to coordinate and share lesson plans and outside resources. Since everyone had so many different things to bring to the table, I was really impressed by how useful this tool was and could be.
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