There were a lot of great ideas in the California 2.0 Curriculum Connections Wiki. There are a few I'm going to use and several I'm going to share with my teachers. Some of my favorites include creating avatars to represent a characters from a book; creating cloud bundles in del.icio.us for faster, more effective, searching; creating an online book club; and using a wiki for our CFF teachers to post project ideas, what has worked and not worked, basically to provide a forum for discussion of technology in the classroom.
Our CFF coach has already created a wiki for our teachers as well as ones for various technology camps we held over the summer. At this point, they provide teachers with links and training materials but I know she'd love the idea of a more interactive wiki. One full of ideas, encouragement, and a sharing of resources. As it is, we rarely have time to meet for trainings, let alone informal share time. It would be an incredible collaborative effort.
As we near the end of our discussion of wikis, I want to share another useful outcome of wiki use. One of our teachers observed an interesting benefit of wikis in the classroom. Last year, we had some very bright, very chatty seniors. They were great kids and livened up any classroom discussion but some students couldn't get a word in edgewise. When one of their teachers had them working with wikis, she found that some of the quieter students really had an opportunity to shine because they found their "voice" could be heard online. The amazing thing is, it didn't stop there. A few of these quieter students started to become more vocal in class once their confidence grew.
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