Bailey+Hirsch

1) I think that a Wiki site could be used as a way for students to pool their knowledge together in a classroom. Most Wiki sites offer a variety of resources from many different contributors. A Wiki website would be a fun place where students could engage with the subject material, and also take some personal ownership for presenting their Wiki space in the best possible light. Some ideas for students to use a Wiki space might be having them share study notes for an upcoming quiz, exchanging research topic ideas, assigning class discussions over a book for homework, or working on a group project together. 2) A teacher could use a Wiki space as a place to store for all of her classroom resources. If she uses a variety of outside websites, online journals, outside books/newspapers/magazines, she could use her Wiki space to hold all of those materials. This would make student research a breeze, because all of the accurate, teacher-chosen materials would be readily accessible. Another way a Wiki could be used would be for one-on-one conferencing, or student-teacher interactions. Having a Wiki might make it easier for the teacher to be accessible to the student, giving them another avenue of communication. 3) Since I don't have my own classroom yet, I don't have any current sites that I use. I do feel that I'll encourage students to utilize Google Docs and Google Sheets. I used those two resources all the time as a student, and found them to be easy to use and helpful when I didn't have my own computer. The website research project gave me a ton of great ideas to use in the future, such as: BoomWriter, Newsmap, and Answer Garden. I have also enjoyed using many of the websites for this class, and as I used them I was excited to think about how I would incorporate them into my class someday.