Chapter 4 in "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms" addresses the uses of wikis in the educational setting. Richardson explains that wikis are a unique way for people to work together and share information. I think that if I were to use a wiki in my classroom, I would use it similarly to how we are using wikis in this course. I think that it would be best for me to set up a "group wiki" where my students could work collaboratively on projects and share ideas. With the maturity level of my students (college age) and their knowledge of technology, incorporating wiki into my classrooms would not be that difficult.
In Chapter 7 I learned more about Flickr. I really love taking pictures and looking at pictures, so this chapter was especially interesting to me. I have only used Flickr a little bit in my teaching to find pictures for my Oral Pathology course, but I plan to start using it more. What I didn't know was about the annotation feature on Flickr. I can think of several ways that I could use this feature to explain part of a diagram. Richardson suggests that an option for use in the classroom would be to have the students annotate a picture themselves as a form of assessment. I think this would be a fun activity compared to the boring, old "label the diagram" assignment with paper and pencil that I so often use.
References: Richardson, W. (2010) Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin
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