Wiki

I found Wiki's easy to use, it was really straight forward, there was no hidden trick and easy to pick up, do a bit of work and put down without  to much effort. Wiki's are a fairly basic ICT, it has pages that you can  type text into, upload pictures and out in links to other websites.

Positive	Minus	Interesting
Easy to pick up and put down More than one person can use the same Wiki Can have as many pages as you want Can upload pictures and put in links to videos Easy to use the edit tools As long as you have internet you can add and edit to the Wiki User friendly	You can’t edit the same page as someone else at the same time Seems very plain, that might change if you pay for it though Not as customisable as other group one ITC’s	Lots of people can look but only people with permission can edit Anybody can make one, you don’t have to be in the education system A few different sites let you build Wiki’s for free so you have some choice to which website you like better

The main thing that I would use a wiki for in a classroom situation would be for group work. Each student that has permission to work on the wiki can add and/or change information that they want. Each student will have access to the wiki at home and as I said before the students can work on it for short amounts of time and not have to waste time finding all their information that they had before, it all stays on the wiki. As a teacher I could give them work to do from the wiki and unless I permission to the students to change the information it will not be changed. I could use this for substitute lesson when I am away and for theory lesson in manual arts to make it easier on the teacher taking my students and more fun for the boring parts of manual arts. A wiki could also be used for an assessment tool for group work students could present their work and send me the link, or I have their link already so I can just go on their wiki when ever I think necessary and have a look at their work and so could parents.

Here is my Wiki