Lesson 7 Evidence of Learning- sort of

This week I have been working on our research paper Wiki. The article that I found most helpful was Jane Harvey’s “Wiki in Language Teaching”.

The title caught my attention right away as I am a Language Teacher and also an executive member of the BCTAML, the BC Language teachers Proffesional Specialists Association.

I was extremely interested in exploring how wikis can be used in a language classroom.
Suprisingly, the article started with how to construct a wiki, which is exactly where I was beginning and therefore was what I was searching for.
While reading the article, I would jump to my wiki and experiment with the step by step instructions Harvey was providing. I managed to add a picture. It is a picture of a boy reading a book and is found in the sidebar. My hope is to move the picture onto the front page, however I have not been able to figure out how to do this. If you can help me with this problem, please explain.

I was pleased to see that Harvey has included several lesson ideas along with the lesson procedures. The lessons ideas provided are:
Group Cultural Project
Class Dictionary
Class Grammar
Round Robin Summary Wiki: Create a Wiki as you learn
Hometown Wiki Page
Sentence Wiki

The article also has a suggestion that explains traps and tricks of which teachers should be aware. As a person who has yet to create a class wiki, I appreciate the suggestions.

If I do become the Teacher-Librarian in the future, I would be moving from the language Teacher position and therefore think that the language teachers would be one of the first group with whom I would collaborate. Harvey’s article will be an article that I would defiantly share with the Language teachers and will help me to team- teach about wikis.