Kristen+Santopietro

I am really excited about this class. I have limited experience using Wikis and blogs. In fact, prior to last semester I had no experience using either of these tools.

The wiki article also showed me that wikis are one of those technologies that seem effective enough, but I just haven't had the opportunity to use them in great detail so I have been pretty unaware of all the benefits.

Previously, I simply thought of a wiki as allowing collaboration, but according to the article's research, wikis can actually improve writing skills. I never really thought of wikis in terms of having the ability to increase a student's writing skills, but this article presented several new concepts in which it says wikis can continue to improve skills such as writing. However, all of the research presented in the article is fairly new since wikis have not been around that long. I would be curious to see long term effects of using a wiki.

This sense of collaboration is something that would obviously tie in quite nicely with many lesson plans for students and I am excited to continue learning about how to incorporate these tools into education.

Hew, K. F. and Cheung, W. S. (2009). Use of Wikis in k-12 and high education; a review of the research, Int. J. Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, Vol. 19, Nos. 2/3, pp. 141-165.

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Group Interview Assignment: This was a fun assignment! It was nice to do something "live" as part of our class, and the interaction was a nice change from our discussion posts. The platform was easy to use, and the interview was a success :) media type="custom" key="6687175"