Having my students two years in a row due to looping at the middle school I am at, I really want to create community in my grade seven classroom. I decided to see how an online community would differ from the "over comfortableness" happening in my classroom. I decided to use a wiki as my medium. I decided to ask the students using a survey what they liked to use the most for feedback: a) the wiki b) a post it note c) person to person. I also asked them which one (a, b, or c) they found most useful to make their piece of writing better. For the first question, the most common answer was c, yet for the second question, the most common answer was a. So even though they like to be social, they found the usefulness of the wiki to create a better good copy with immediate feedback to edit and change their piece of writing on the spot. I have been thinking about the difference in community between the wiki and my classroom and I am questioning why the wiki is better at creating a more positive community?
An interesting link: http://www.evenfromhere.org/?p=1352
An interesting article: Collaborative Learning the Wiki Way
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