week 4 reflection- wiki space

After I have experienced setting up and using a wiki space, the first thing comes to my mind is that wiki is a perfect technology for creating lesson plans. That because I, as a new teacher, will need some help and some editing for my lesson plans from my sisters and friends who are teachers. So, I can create my lesson plan and then share it with them to avoid mistakes as possible as I can. For example, they may tell me it will be better if you divide that lesson into two days instead of one day. Or, they may ask me to add something interesting to the lesson to keep students engaged. Moreover, I can use wiki for a whole class project. For instance, this week the project will be to write about a certain scientist. So, each group or student will post something about that scientist. Or even if many scientist developed the same topic or domain, I will let each group to pick a scientist and write what he did or what are his achievements in that domain. Also, I can use wiki with my students as a performance list. For example, I can post every week the names of the excellent students for that week, and give them a space to comment. I think that will encourage the students to do their best to be in this list. Also, I can use wiki at the end of the semester to create a review plan page, so the students will have a space to list their questions for the review. In this way, I can organize the review lesson to be able to answer all their questions and add other day for the review if needed. In addition, the principle of the school or any other group’s leader can use wiki to organize their meeting. For instance, if the principle of the school want to do a convention, he can use wiki to give a chance to the teachers to list what points they want to discuss. All those are some ideas to use wiki for educational purposes.

Not only in my career life wiki will help me, but also in my normal life as well. I think wiki will be a great and helpful technology to organize my events. For example, if I and my family plan to do a surprise for my brother, who will graduate soon, wiki will be the best tool to help us organize this party. We can share our ideas about the place we will celebrate in, the best time for all of us, and the other things we will need for the celebration. Finally, the ideas above were some of my thoughts about wikis, and there are multiple uses for wiki to our different needs.