Tool 6: WIK WIK WIK WIKIIIIIIIIIIII

The most common Wiki that came to mind immediately was Wikipedia as mentioned in the blog for number 6. Today it seems that many people refer to Wikipedia when doing research topics, looking for answers to simple day to day questions, or even in discussion with co-workers. The concepts that correlate with Wiki's seems to be very promising. They have taken a way where you can create a website (some at no charge) to collaborate with so many people from all over the world. The best part about creating and using Wiki's is that you don't have to be a computer programmer and know how to write code to do this. The Wiki's to me seem to be like the "ultimate blog" and on these types of websites that you create others can give commentary, share ideas, add inserts of information that pertain to the topic you discuss. I could see this being used inside but more outside of the classroom/gym, it is like a continuation of education in the virtual world. One of the wiki's I was checking out was students paired up who took a certain topic, wrote a hypothesis, experiment, and data. That could easily be transformed into having a specific topic discussed in class, where in our case let's take the Heart, the students could log on to your Wiki at home or from the library and write down what the heart's functions are, where it is located, and how to keep it healthy. Then as the administrator of your wiki, you could go on and conduct a simple check for understanding, and that could be utilized as a small assessment, but also let you know where your class is as a whole or grade level even. They could also go back on and edit what they put if they found out that they were incorrect later. Now we were asked if the google site may offer better advantages, and I would have to say "Yes" based off the fact that we are already using a lot of google's tools, such as google docs, Google Reader, are email account was set up under google, so I think compatibility and mobility of moving through each tool would probably be a little smoother than using different resources, not to mention not having to navigate to so many different websites. It seems they offer a wiki of a fairly decent memory size and so forth. I think that a universal Wiki could be set up within the district where Health Fitness teachers can log on to and add commentary or just share ideas with other Health Fitness teachers as well as gain knowledge from others around the world that teach in the same profession and this could give access to anyone and everyone to learn and generate new innovative ways of doing things.