MY OPINION ON DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL WIKIS

ONE CLASSROOM WIKI: LATIN WIKI

Obiously this wiki is about Latin and it is a group wiki. The Latin´s teacher and students can edit the wiki. In this wiki students can organize their latin knowledge and create intesting material which everyone can use. At first sight it seems that this wiki is very well organized and it has a very large amount of information, since it has a lot of pages dealing with the learning of Latin. In the discussion section, which is very large, there are a lot of interventions and questions made by students, and this can be very useful for the subject´s improvement. 

TWO STUDENTS CREATED WIKIS:

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ENGINEERS HOME

This wiki was created at the Concordia University and it helps students in order to do exams. Students at this University or others can edit this wiki. I think this wiki is very useful for students, because they can share their exams and help them in order to prepare them. The fact that in the first page students had useful links to other similar sites seems also very useful. The page entitled Sample Exams is very well organized since the exams are distributed by subjects, and students can find easily the exams they are looking for.

PROFESSIONAL WRITINGS

This wiki has the material and the information of how to write a professional essay. Essentialy students can edit it, but any person who was interested in this topic also can. At first sight the presentation is very attractive, because of the images and the mixture of colours, but when you move through it you realize, from my own point of view, that it has too much information and this can be a disadvantage. The first page is very long and it has a lot of pages, 25 to be exact, and this can be chaotic when you are looking for a very specific information. 

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF EDUCATIONAL WIKIS:

USING WIKIS IN THE CLASSROOM

As the title of the wiki says this wiki is about how to use wikis in the classroom. Overall teachers are the people who can edit it, although any person can do it. From my point of view this site is very interesting since the participants will be introduced to the easy-to-use world of wikis and to the large number of possibilities this tool has in the classroom. I also consider that this wiki could be very interesting for me and my fellows as future English teachers. A good aspect of this wiki is that it is focused on new teachers and participants who are not got used to these concrete tools. Ii begins with the description and construction of a wiki.