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Technology for Communication Shared Project
Kamrie Fryer, Lacey Tait, Jenny Jarvis, Destony Hanna

A wiki is a web site that can be uploaded quickly. It can be edited by anyone and can be transferred quickly from computer to computer. A wiki should be used because they are easy to access quickly and find information.

Some elements of the wiki are they are easy to access,and also the sharing of information from lots of different people and ideas. Wiki's can be customized your to have it look how ever you want. Wiki's can have about of different skins and layouts depending on how you want your wiki to look. Wiki"s can be locked so that only certain people have access to it or they can be public for anyone to view and edit.

Pros and cons of wikis; They can be really helpful and informative. As a teacher you could see what other teachers are doing around the world and use some of their techniques that have helped them in their classrooms. Wiki are very easy to use and to get information from, you can just take what you want off someones wiki if it is not locked. Wiki are a good way to find a resource that can creditable, such as educational wikis. Cons of wiki are that some of the information found on the wikis are not what you want or your looking for. Wiki are very fast and easy to access. A problem might be finding information that you could actually learn for and use. There are a lot of different wiki"s out there and they can be hard to sort through to find the ones your looking for. Any person can edit a wiki and put what they want on them.

There are many ways to use wikis in the classroom today. They are a great tool for students when they are assigned homework, group work, reports, and discussions. Wikis could be used for individual assignments, like how we are using them in this class now. When you want students to research something then have a discussion on that topic, the wiki can be a fun and different approach to that.

As the teacher you could create a wiki for your class where they have a place outside of school to find instruction to their assignments and other important information when they are away from school. It is a great tool to help parents stay connected with their child as well as their teacher. A wiki could be set up easily, so each of your students in your class room could take turns putting pages. pictures, calenders, and many other creations on your wiki. Each child in the class would have the opportunity to do a different job on the wiki making fun for the kids to learn while still having the wiki an important part in your class. A wiki page can be one simple step to creating a more technology based classroom, which can change the way the class works as we know it today.Wiki can benefit the children and the teacher in the class, while the students will be learning more about technology and understanding how to use it. It would help the teachers help the students with not only technology, but all aspects of there education.

We disagree that wiki"s are the best and easiest tool to use. We find them actually hard to use and find the information you want to use you can't. However they are a good source and can be used to find information. We didn't find that they were very fast to navigate through it takes a lot of time to upload pics and videos to. It also has a lot to do with the layout of the wiki if it could be faster and easier to look at simpler one and find information one needs.

Some educational wikis we liked are: Mrs. Anderson's 2nd grade class Mrs. Abernathy's class

Using a wiki in your elementary classroom is a way to engage students in their school work at school and at home. It is also a great way for students to work together and have discussions even when they are not in the classroom. Students would be designated different responsibilities so they have a sense of ownership in the wiki and then if they rotate the jobs they can learn all the different aspects of maintaining the wiki. By bringing this into your classroom students can share what their class has been working on with their family and friends. It is also a great way to allow parents to see what their child is working on in the classroom and can keep them informed on assignments as well as extra ways to help their children learn the concepts being taught. The use of wiki's in the classroom can be a great way to showcase what your class is doing and allow them to see comments that have been posted by visitors to your page and how many views your page has received. This will give your students an extra incentive to do their best work. Students could also find other educational websites that the teacher has linked to their page.