Portfolio Piece 7

How can a wiki be used to improve a classroom

Just like any other internet or computer base activity, students will be highly excited to do the activity. For my wiki, I used a notebook template. Using this template, the students can view the wiki as additional notes from the teacher without the teacher dictating the notes to them. The information will always be there so at any time prior to testing, the students are free to view the information on line. View and studying the information on line, gives the students a positive reason to use the internet. So I would use a wiki to give additional information, videos and URL to other sites with related information for my accounting class.

Reflection

For this portfolio a wiki from wikispaces was created. It was a challenge for me to get familiar with the features and gadgets available with the wiki. Once I got accustoms to them creating and designing my wiki was a simple task. The templates available were very boring to me. This piece could have been improved by adding a better template that would attract the students more. There should have been a way for us to design our templates instead of just changing the colours only. If there is a way for us to create our own templates, then that is a challenge that I will overcome in the future.