Reflections

After reading Chapter 4 “Wikis” from the book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, I am rethinking the best use of my classroom wikispace.  It points out that wikis are used to edit information and it states on page 59 that “wikis are not as good as blogs at carrying on a conversation about ideas.” 

My original thoughts (refer to previous post) were to use the classroom wiki to converse with college students and professors.  If conversation is the point of our contact with college students than perhaps the blog is best.  However, if I want college students to respond to our learning, to contribute to our science experiments, and to elaborate on our understanding; then the wikispace would probably be more effective and more powerful.

This brings another questions to mind… Would college students want to contribute to our learning?  Would they find talking to first graders a waste of their time?  Would there be any upper grade level students (junior high or high school students) willing to share their knowledge in a first grade classroom wikispace?