Teaching with Wiki

How to use wiki
in education

Wikis have a wide range of educational applications, most of which can be combined within one wiki site. The following activities can be fulfilled on one platform without significant interference and thereby can form a part of an integrated educational resource:

Foreign Language Teachers can enjoy a range of experimental wiki-based vocabulary-building and writing tasks, including (but not limited to):

Student's profiles

In a wiki site, students are free to create pages about themselves. A teacher can ask students to create such pages as an entry-level task to get them familiar with wiki and its tools. A student's page can contain a photo, bio information, hobbies, a list of interests, links to favorite websites. A task to create such a page gives the student an incentive how to use formatting, publishing and multimedia capabilities of a wiki platform, thereby preparing the student for more complex tasks.

Learn more about student profiles:
Examples of student profiles at Princeton and Berkley.
UBC’s student profiles is a live example of student profiling in a legacy wiki engine (Media Wiki) within a real course. Also contains a template to be filled by new students.

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Student's profiles

How to use wiki
in education