Thing #16

Love, love, love Wikis!! They seem so easy to use, and could substitute for committee meetings for busy teachers, and sharing information and ideas among the 11 libraries in our ISD. They are simple enough for the kids to use without a lot of instructions. This past year I assisted the music teacher in a research project that she was doing with 4th and 5th grade on composers. This would have been so much better and more fun than each child writing their own individual and boring (to them) paper. If they collaborated through a wiki, that might have been pretty exciting, and I plan to suggest it for the upcoming year. (Harking back to another Thing - I will suggest that they make a trading card about their composer too.)