I have never contributed to a wiki before and was initially overwhelmed with the task. However, if fifth graders are expected to do this I thought it must be manageable!! I enjoyed reading the wiki's of others and creating my own page. A wiki is (or can be) much more collaborative than a blog and different contributors to any given wiki made this topic interesting. I will continue to search for wikis dealing with social work and school related issues, such as treatments for various mental health disorders or helpful interventions to use with students. I am sure there are many more uses for wikis but I feel I need more time to process the implications of wikis.
Within a classroom setting the composition and use of wikis would be the collaboration that students would need to engage in and become comfortable using. As has been a common theme throughout my blog, I continue to be concerned about the student who struggles with reading, comprehending, focusing, or who has some type of developmental disability. The things that are being done in the general education classroom need to adapted to the needs of the special education population.
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I have a very good friend who started a wiki page a few years ago with his calculus classes. It was a vauable tool for both his students and hi. They communicated with each other about calculus. In addition, they also shared math jokes, if there is such a thing. Some people might think math itself is a joke. I think back to this and he was a front runner with wiki pages.
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