A wiki is a shared space in which the teacher and the student are able to post and edit content in order to create a collaborative information resource.
A wiki is a place where students can edit, add and structure content in one place. Google documents has a wiki where you can all work together on one project.
When I was at AMU, we all used the Google documents wiki to create French 100 and 101. The Course Lead would all give us a document to edit and we would all give our 2 cents and fix and edit the document at different times. We were able to edit the document whenever it was convenient for us. A wiki allows people in different time zones to edit a document together and work together on a project.
I had students in my World Literature class work on Powerpoint projects using wikis. Each student could add, edit, change, embed different slides of a Powerpoint for their group final project. If students lived in different time zones, then each student could edit the project at their convenience.
You can also have a class wiki where students can work on the same project together. If students want to create a class glossary of all new words they learned from their reading, the class could do just that and write out their new words on the class wiki.
Creating a class glossary is a great way for Freshman English Composition students to learn new vocabulary, a great way for ESL students to learn more English words, and a great way for American students learning French to learn more French words. Let's say in French, we are doing a unit on being in the restaurant. I can have each student post 5 new restaurant words to the wiki. They cannot post the same words as a previous student and before long, you have a class glossary of French restaurant words.
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