Using wikis

In the spirit of sharing ideas, I've decided to say a bit about my experience of using a wiki. Wikis are websites on which the pages can be edited by all the users. They are therefore useful for collaborative writing and serve as a showcase for students to publish their writing on the web. As well as writing, they can upload photographs and audio files. I set up a PB wiki (http://pbwiki.com), which was very easy to use, but if you needed a bit more help there's a great site (http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/) which shows you how (or there's Andy). I used it with an SA2 class to write short biographies about famous Portuguese, to which they added pictures and short recordings. There's a comment button on each page, so you can draw attention to things that need changing, and you can encourage them to read one another's pages,peer correct and make comments. We haven't finished yet, and it was all a bit experimental, but if anyone is interested it's at http://famousportuguese.pbwiki.com. If that doesn't work, get in touch and I'll send you the link. If it does, but you can't see links to the pages in the column on the right, click on 'side bar'.