Digital Tool 3: Wiki's for Collaborative Learning

A Wiki is an online forum where not only the creator adds information and tools but online guests and followers are also able to add, edit, modify and removie information with various editing tools and programmes. According to http://wiki.org the key features of a Wiki include;

• Open
• Incremental
• Organic
• Universal
• Observable
• Trust
• Fun
• Sharing
• Interaction
• Collaboration
• Social Networks

In a collaborative classroom setting a Wiki could be incorporated for students to share their views and opinions on a subject matter and gather ideas from other students to expand on their own thoughts. Being an online resource allows students to interact and link up with classrooms from across the world and gain a cultural experience or with other schools in the same area to form better working relationships and partnerships.

The link for the Wiki which I created is http://nicoleemma90.wikispaces.com/