Okay, well I'm going to be honest about my experience with adding to a wiki. To start, I flat out had no idea how I was supposed to find the articles on wikipedia to contribute to. I searched on wikipedia trying to find relevant topics and I also read other classmates' postings on how they contributed to wikipedia. I was still confused. Then, apparently, I realized that it was much easier than I was making it out to be. Really all I had to do was find something I felt I could add information to and click the edit button. I guess I'm just a person who is always looking for the "catch" in things. I never imagined it could be as simple as clicking "edit" and typing my comments. Obviously, I was wrong!
In the end, I contributed to wikipedia by adding my comments to a section related to teaching and pedogogy. I truly feel that in today's teaching world the most essential part of teaching is understanding the pedogogy of the students. As we all well know, students learn in a variety of ways and each students has his/her own strengths and weaknesses. It's crutial for a teacher to understand the makeup (pedogogy) of his/her classroom and differentiated instruction accordingly. Basically, those are the comments I made on wikipedia. It was unbelievably simple; however, I will say the concept in general can be tricky for students to understand. Since anyone can post information, the information may not be entirely factual. Students need to be aware of this before considering the information significant.
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- Laura Ann
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Laura Ann --
I was on the same page as you; I did not even know where to start looking for a wiki to contribute to. I found it a bit difficult to do. Like you said, it was simple, yet the fact that anyone can post still makes me nervous. Even with any new knowledge I acquire through this program, I felt awkward editing a wiki that someone has obviously put time into earlier. I do not want to put any information in a wiki that may be found controversial. Sounds like you adding a good contribution to another wiki.
-Steph
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