Taking WIKIs to the classroom

Students in English 206 at the University of Delaware began this wiki in the fall of 2007 as a kind of online handbook to complement the work they were doing in class. Working in collaborative teams, students chose a writer, a specific work, or the cultural contexts of a literary period, and did some research. The students presented their findings in a way that would be useful to other students and took advantage of the multimedia possibilities of the wiki.

Their goal is to build a wiki of British Literature from 1660 to the Present. In our new new media class we are blogging about our findings and sharing them on our facebook page. There seems to be a move to not have class online but share class online. Take what you would be writing in class and put it out there for others to read. This is a great idea. I think it will make people better writers knowing that not just their professor will be reading their work. Also if something is good enough it my get discovered and be a stepping stone for that writer.

http://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/