Recently, I submitted my information to the class wiki that Dr. Kist has set up. I think that the idea is great! He selected numerous novels that we will most likely have to teach in the future, and assigned one to each of the students in our class. I was assigned to Beowulf, which was fine by me because I've read it, I understand it, and I like it. The assignment was to find 20 lesson ideas for your book, and post them to the wiki. Each needed a hyperlink and a description of what the lesson idea is. This is such a good resource because after everyone posts the information that they found, there is an easy-to-navigate site including everything! If I need to know a lesson idea for Romeo and Juliet or 1984 or any other book listed on the wiki, I simply click and then read the descriptions until I find a lesson idea that I like. I really hope to use a wiki with my future class, and maybe do the same type of setup, assigning each student a different part of the whole wiki. Maybe it could even work as a review for a test: I could assign each student a different chapter from the book we are reading and have them post some kind of important information from their chapter. Once all the students post their information, they will be able to use it to study from.
Technology is sweet.
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