Wikis

Wikis are a tool that I have used in education mainly in the creation of pathfinders.  Using the curriculum as a guide I have created research pathfinders for the Grade 5 & 6 students for their humanities units.  Given time I will create more for the themes of Antarctica and the Human Body.  The advantage of using a wiki is that I can lock access to the information pages that I construct and students can join the wiki and add their work as additional pages.  This allows teams of students to collaborate and construct their own pages.  Being online, means that students have access to the web links on the pathfinder at both school and home.  I believe that the use of wikis is probably more suitable for a secondary school environment where students are (hopefully) more capable, independent information users and have a higher degree of information literacy.