I spent some time today exploring Google docs. Now this seems to have tremendous potential. It can use many of the documents I already have without needing to rework them as wold be required for wiki's.
The biggest disadvantage is needing to get all the students to set up a g mail account, including myself. Having just set up my igoogle account using a non-g mail address, I will now need to reset i-google for my g amil address and use that version if I am going to use i-google. I don't like having so many accounts etc. I'd rather have everything integrated.
Also Yr 7 don't have laptops at the moment so that only leaves Yr 11, and they only have 6 weeks left then I am on leave for 12 months. However I will continue to explore possibilities. Tomorrow I will see what the Yr 11's think and what suggestions they have.
But this is the application that has the most potential for teaching from what I have seen through web 2.0 so far.
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