Wikis

I think there are some definite potentials for using wikis in our programs. When Julia and I met with EDC in September, I asked Valerie and Liz if they could support a wiki in Moodle. The idea for a wiki in the online course would be that teachers could collaborate on their final projects and either create group projects or individual projects and collaborate with their peers.

One interesting way we are already using a wiki is with the World and America TAH website. I used PMWiki to create this website. It had the benefit of allowing me to copy and paste copious amounts of text into the website and get it completed much more quickly than a traditional site using html would have allowed. Another benefit is that this particular wiki has its own "language" for coding the site that anyone can learn. And finally, there is the potential that in the future we could open up the site and make it a collaborative site and allow teachers to add their own curriculum ideas, resources, etc. for the teaching about the TAH topics.