Although I know I have a ways before its finished I have really enjoyed setting up this online class. I reflect on where I am very often and have even sometimes thought of something I wanted to do and gotten up in the middle of the night to add something to the course… and make a sandwich. Mmmm… I find that every time I look at the course I find a hole, something lacking in explanation, or something that will clearly go totally wrong.

What I have been doing is experimenting with what is in Moodle. One of the items I wanted to play with was the wiki because I have heard so much about them this year at my school with teachers talking about putting up wiki sites. From what I gathered it’s a website in which many people can contribute and add. I’ve heard of a wiki site in which people can go to edit and create their own new chapters to the Harry Potter books. What a great idea. I actually just found it “Harry Potter Wiki” Imagine what something similar could do for an online class. The Harry Potter site’s idea would be great idea for an English class. After a student’s read a novel they can spice it up a little through editing and maybe even give the book a new ending. For my class I wanted to have a wiki in which students could edit and add elements to a short title and text on the ancient city-state of Sumer, but it didn’t work out so well. It is something I will just have to try again. Does anyone have any good ideas on how to use a wiki for an online class?

The instruction manual is good, but it did not clearly explain how to go about using a wiki for a course. (4)