• Thing nine and ten have been one the easiest “things” for me in this course. I still wanted to take time to explore the websites to gain further ideas of what I could do to make the wikis that I have developed and manage more exciting or more efficient. I personally manage a few different wikis based on county wide initiatives and internal book clubs. Each of these has a little different feel but seve as a place to share ideas, materials or just network with one another. I feel that my wikis have become more sophisticated and more appealing as time goes on. If you are in Kent County and would like to see our county wide priority standards wiki, please go to https://kentisdps.pbworks.com/ Enjoy!
• I have noticed that some wikis are pretty straight forward with minimal items on the pages, while others have hyperlinks embedded into the text that take you to more specific information. For example, on The Cool Cat Teacher’s wiki, I loved how some of the links to new pages included background wallpaper with the screen that scrolled over the center of the page. The “wallpaper” was the design of a yellow memo pad with pop cans and stains of pop can rings across a math assignment. This quickly caught my attention, so I am sure it was appealing for the students as well. Once again on this same website I liked how the study for English Exam brought them deeper the review with options of cliff notes and spark notes available to the students as well as online practice quizzes. I wonder how many more students take advantage of the practice test since it is online. On The bagladies wiki, I liked how they made their sidebar hyperlinked to resources or additional pages. I have links within my text that open to new pages, I have not used my sidebars in the same way. This wiki was easy to navigate, provided lots of teaching ideas, and colorful. When reviewing the teachingeverystudent wiki I found the information to be valuable, but didn’t like all the white space. It really needed more color or graphics to keep me on the page long enough to find valuable learning resources housed here. Since there was no eye appeal, I quickly wanted to look at another wiki instead. Aesthetics of a page is important so that you can keep the “user” on the site long enough to find value added materials, resources, ideas, and networks available to them.
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