Group+11

Members of Group:
Nora Dellinger and Patrick Breen

Name of Tool:
Wikispaces

Website of Tool:
http://www.wikispaces.com

Does tool require Sign-in?
Yes, very easy setup to create a wikispace. No sign-in to view.

Description of Tool:
Wikispaces is a hosting service. It is used by business, non-profits and educators for a small fee and even free to some extent.

How does tool apply to your curricular area?
Wikispaces allow for collaboration. It helps students teach each other without having to be present in a classroom (at home doing homework). In the transversal example on the wikispace (http://mjgds-math.wikispaces.com/Transversals+and+Their+Angles) it tells the student what another students definition and perspective of what a transversal is and show an example with the angles labeled differently. Wikispaces do not allow right there interaction. For example, in the order of operations screen on the wiki (http://mjgds-math.wikispaces.com/The+Algebraic+order+of+Operations) it is showing the students the acronym for the order. A way to help the students learn the material better would have them interact with the acronym. This could be used by instead of showing all the steps at once in a step by step process, you could have the students press the enter button when they are ready to move onto the next step that way they do not feel so overwhelmed with a lot of steps at once.

Where does tool fit in Digital Blooms and why?
In the pyramid of Bloom's Taxonomy, wikispaces is in the category of creating. Students using wikispaces, create a learning space to help with different learning areas in different subjects. Students are designing, developing and creating a new product or point of view and expressing it through a wikispace. They are putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole.

Extras:
http://mjgds-math.wikispaces.com