Wiki Reflection 1

Before taking this class, the principal interface I had experienced with a wiki was to access Wikipedia. I had heard wikis were a great way to encourage collaboration among students thereby increasing learning. Now I was going to experience it for myself. Because I was unavailable for my team’s first skype meeting, I chose a different topic for my webibliography than the one I would research for the wiki project. This meant I started working on the wiki feeling behind in my research. However, I was very interested in the topic, both the topic of the whole wiki – Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – and my particular page – Professional Development (PD). Since I consider myself a teacher, I was very interested with the methods used to encourage and teach educators to incorporate technology in the classroom. The problem for me was that there wasn’t much research available because professional development for technology inclusion is a fairly new phenomenon and extending it to BYOD professional development means the research is almost non-existent. So I had to begin my project by deciding to settle for the research done on PD for technology inclusion, knowing that most of it would probably transfer from one type of PD to the other. I had been in classes with two of the three classmates in my group, so I was looking forward to working with them.