Rob Lucas, a sixth-grade teacher in Rocky Mount, NC has started a wiki for teachers to share lesson plans, files and experiences. It’s a great model for how I’d like to present a wiki for articulation in my district, but heck, maybe I’ll just point everyone to Rob’s space. His wiki got a mention in a Christian Science Monitor article, and while I’m not positive, it might just be the first mention of a K-12 wiki in a major press piece. Cool!
One thing I really like about it is that it has a comments function which shows up once you register. Not exactly sure what the registration is for, but…
Anyway, a nice early model to watch. I Furled the site, added Rob’s feed to my Bloglines account, and am thinking more about Wikis today. This is still just too much fun…
Do you know what software he is using for his wiki site?
Thanks for the post, I want to check out this K-12 wiki.
In case you’re interested, we have been using a wiki for K-12 preservice teachers. It’s about technology integration in general, and the preservice students are adding pages about how to use different technologies in education. It’s located at http://ipt.byu.edu/~wiki04/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Spr04/HomePage
Bill-
I’m using a service provided by http://www.editme.com . It’s a WYSIWYG editor, which really makes wikis much more accessible to non-techies. Without it, I don’t think you could make a lesson plan wiki possible. I keep waiting for editme to become a big hit like blogger or typepad, but it hasn’t happened yet.
-Rob