Tips

Tips for Effectively Using Wikis ü  Create templates for your pages and for student pages. ü  Use notifications – choose email of everything or RSS feeds of specific parts. Look into using RSS feeds in a blog reader… Bloglines or Google Reader [www.google.com/reader]or whatever homepage you like to use (yahoo, Microsoft, Comcast, etc.), which likely has some sort of built in RSS feed reader. ü  Make your students use their real names or initials in their usernames. Create a contract for respectful membership in this online classroom tool. Good practice is to do this collaboratively with the students during class or through the wiki.