Thing 22

In your blog post be sure to include the link to your wiki. Then discuss your feelings about using a wiki. How does a wiki differ from a blog? When is one more appropriate to use than the other? The link to my wiki is http://elaplus.wikispaces.com/ I think I need to learn more about wikis before I could use them well in the classroom. I tried to set up a project within my wiki, but I'm not sure how that works exactly. I set up my home page with the beginnings of an assignment, but I wasn't sure where the students could begin to add their work and edit. Can you add a page to the home page or do you create a project as I did? It seems as though the primary difference between a blog and a wiki is that students can contribute work toward a blog, but cannot change the design of the blog itself. Students can be more involved in the actual design of a wiki. It seems as though if you just wanted students to prove their understanding of something, then a blog would be most suitable. If students created the project from scratch, then maybe a wiki would be more suitable. I have always used a blog and so I am most comfortable with it. I think you would have to monitor a wiki much more carefully, but it would give students more creative license.