Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Collaboration on Wiki Spaces



It is obvious that collaborative writing environments cultivate an open door for learners to co-develop information and get to be occupied with shared discourse with their peers through platform such as wiki spaces. It is especially essential to provide learners with collaborative learning situations outside the classroom.

In this lesson members demonstrated the eagerness to gain from each other through scaffolding and feedback in the wiki spaces provided. This extended collaborative association and platform which permitted members to identify gaps in their written work, and make relevant recommendations in providing an enjoyable learning experience.

Wikis in the Classroom, Why?
(i)           It is a great motivator for your learners
(ii)          It is easy for you the teacher to monitor classroom participation.
(iii)         It provides for creativity and innovation
(iv)         No students is left behind, all are encouraged to participation
(v)          It promotes interpersonal communication between learners, their teachers, and parents
(vi)         It is a new way of looking at things differently, interesting way to learn too

Wikis in the Classroom, How?
(i)           Group projects
(ii)          To manage classroom documents
(iii)         Discussion and debate in the classroom
(iv)         Teacher collaboration
(v)          Post class work in wiki spaces

Ciao!

2 comments:

  1. True. In addition to identifying gaps, wikis have always enabled us to learn from others.

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  2. This is information, but have you really been critical enough of the way in which the wiki has been used in this course?

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