M+WIKISPACE

WIKISPACES

APPLICATION: Wikispace is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content of documents created by one or more persons.

REFLECTION: Wikispace is an interesting computer application that gives me the opportunity to expose my students to somehis thing different. As a Language Arts teacher, writing is one the focus areas of the 7th grade language arts curriculum. The NC Standard Course of Study for Language Arts, 7th grade, states the learner will apply conventions of grammar and language usage. Students will model an understanding of conventional written and spoken expression.

The use of the Wikispace allows the teacher a tool that will increase student's engagement, creativity, collaboration, metacognition, and interspersonal skills. I have created a Wiki page where students have been asked to create a story based on a prompt. Personally, I have created a Wiki page to house my technology reflections and artifacts for the Ia[pplications in Technolgoy in the Classroom. Computer Technology Competency Goal 1 explains the importance of identifying, using and recognizing skills nedded for the workplace now and in the future.

ARTIFACTS: Wikiespace.com: JonesClass2011 This WIKI is a format that can be used in a classroom to support students in writing and formatting stories.