Exhilarating and overwhelming at once! In my exploring of the wiki sources, I tried to focus on classroom oriented wikis. I really liked the AP World Studies wiki and the one from the English 10 teacher's class... great Google Doc slideshow on the theme of isolation after reading A Separate Peace and Frankenstein. I'm going to try to do a similar one with my English 11 students who read Catcher in the Rye. I also enjoyed the Flatclass wiki project, although it's soooo amazingly multi-layered that I know I couldn't incorporate it into my program. Very inspiring, though.
The Curriculum Connections for this "thing" are great, however, much more adaptable to my program (I hope!). I like the idea of collaborative note-taking; I can see incorporating this into several of my English and history classes. Of course the idea of compiling a wiki of famous writers or historical figures is GREAT! I will definitely be doing that! And I love the Top 10 list and trading cards, too....I'm going to try both.
My own ideas... well, I'd love to have my students keep an "Efolio" of their work; students must also be able to view others' efolios and comment on them, etc. I'd like to have students create a product together using Google Docs... in Independent Studies we're always looking for ways for our students to collaborate or at least converse. And I think creating a resource wiki might be a good idea; students would get credit for adding valid/useful sources to the ongoing list.
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