Web 2.0 to Go!

After reading Vicki’s blog posting on wikis, I had to reflect on my daughters struggle right now in her college Biology class. Having had no experience with wikis for organization and collaboration, she uses traditional methods. Notes on paper, flash cards, skimming the book, sitting through boring lectures. I just wonder if she had a group from class that she collaborated with on the same material, what more might be learned. Discussion as opposed to being on a notecard island. …. Ahhhh in a perfect world.  

I loved the wiki examples that were given. I was especially impressed with Code Blue!! The depth of information that the students gathered is astounding. I loved their profiles as physicians, especially the 150 year old Dr. Bea!  
Proving that even First grade can be a place for wikis, School in the Past, allowed grandparents and parents to offer ideas on how school has changed. I loved the contrast of them using a wiki to enter things like “no library we had to walk to town to borrow books”.
Welkers WIkinomics is a wiki that I show as an example of how a wiki can almost REPLACE a text book. The discussions that the students are having on economic transitions give me hope for the world future!! What an incredible example of students thinking deeply and expressing their ideas and thoughts on such relevant topics.
We use wikis in our web 2.0 class, to share new and unusual web 2.0 applications and ideas. Each class posts, shares and then becomes part of our web 2.0 history. Some have an “Aha! That is how I can use a wiki” moment at that point!!