Rob Lucas, a sixth-grade teacher in Rocky Mount, NC has started a wiki for teachers to share lesson plans, files and experiences. It’s a great model for how I’d like to present a wiki for articulation in my district, but heck, maybe I’ll just point everyone to Rob’s space. His wiki got a mention in a Christian Science Monitor article, and while I’m not positive, it might just be the first mention of a K-12 wiki in a major press piece. Cool!
One thing I really like about it is that it has a comments function which shows up once you register. Not exactly sure what the registration is for, but…
Anyway, a nice early model to watch. I Furled the site, added Rob’s feed to my Bloglines account, and am thinking more about Wikis today. This is still just too much fun…
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Do you know what software he is using for his wiki site?
Thanks for the post, I want to check out this K-12 wiki.
In case you’re interested, we have been using a wiki for K-12 preservice teachers. It’s about technology integration in general, and the preservice students are adding pages about how to use different technologies in education. It’s located at http://ipt.byu.edu/~wiki04/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Spr04/HomePage
Bill-
I’m using a service provided by http://www.editme.com . It’s a WYSIWYG editor, which really makes wikis much more accessible to non-techies. Without it, I don’t think you could make a lesson plan wiki possible. I keep waiting for editme to become a big hit like blogger or typepad, but it hasn’t happened yet.
-Rob