Today has been Wiki Wednesday!
I have had some time at school to get a few jobs done out of class and I have been exploring the use of wikis. Initially my thoughts were regarding there application in a classroom – children sharing their writing etc. Today I have been exploring the use of wikis as a professional development or management tool. So I have set a wikispace for school where I have added some content regarding the school’s SRF and also the SEF. To me the use of a wiki has some important advantages:
- Access the document where ever you can get online.
- Collaborate with lots of people in different places.
- Track the history of the document changes.
- Revert back to previous versions.
- Key members of staff can monitor the changes of a document.
So for example every year certain school policies have to be reviewed and often changes have to be made – I think that using a wikispace would be a simple and easy way to do it.
I then read John’s blog about his lesson on Wikipedia and it reminded about an idea I had. Essentially anyone can author content for the resource so why not set it as a writing task – it would involve research and in depth writing skills. I wonder if any schools have ever successfully contributed to it?