My Ideas of Application of Wiki in My Teaching

    In order to support self-directed learning, the self-access, web-based Wiki may help my students to work independently with their own initiative and proceed at their own pace using as much electronic resources as they need.

    For my course, certain content will not be covered in class but simply assigned as required homework. For instance, writing task usually takes a lot of time for checking. Therefore I should set up a writing area. I can give my students group work of writing on a topic, each group post their draft writing on their Wiki page and then evaluate each other. After leaving comments all groups can revise with successive edits. Or I can ask them to create a fiction with campus theme and each group of four must follow the already written parts and collaboratively writes the critical reaction to each part of the story,, deciding whether each storyteller please the audience with their narration. In addition, I may also offer my feedback in the process.

    This is only one possible use of Wiki in my class. I will do more while learning from others. Thanks for my colleagues for sharing their great thoughts in blogs.