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How-to video: Providing meaningful student feedback on a classroom wiki

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Brief synopsis: A classroom wiki web site can be a powerful tool for teaching and learning in today's digital classroom. With a wiki classroom web site, students can create virtually any activity or project and place it on a secure wiki web page, hosted in the teacher's online Content Management System. A classroom wiki can also be a powerful tool for providing meaningful feedback to students.

Benefits: Using the comment section on the wiki classroom web site, a teacher can add a wide variety of feedback that only each individual student can see. Not only is this a powerful web-based form of teacher-student communication, but the classroom wiki allows digital classroom teachers to provide direct web links to wiki pages that contain lessons and presentations that are relevant to the activity on which the teacher is commenting. This makes it easy for students to quickly review lessons and presentations and re-learn prior lessons and apply them to the activity.

Drawbacks: Supplying feedback online is a progressive method that is new to parents, so they may need some coaching. Also, student wiki web sites are password protected, so students will have to share their sites with parents, in order for parents to see the feedback.

Conclusion: The how-to video above demonstrates how to provide meaningful student feedback on a classroom wiki.

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