Thing #16: Wikis

This will be a savior! I am doing a presentation on dialogue journals and literacy letters. Wikis will be perfect for this. While, I will show the "old-fashioned way" with paper and ideas and suggestions, I am now going to really promote utilizing a wiki. We want students to talk/write to each other about their reading from book clubs and other things. This will be a much better way to get that kind of interaction going. I believe students will engage more in this format. Plus, as a teacher it will be so much easier to read and check on what they are writing without lugging tons of journals home. While I am focusing on language arts, obviously this can be used to enhance dialogue in social studies and science as well. Plus there are multiple other uses for wikis.