Wiki Activity!

This wiki activity was created by myself and is related to my previous post about Simple English Wikipedia.

This task can be offered to the senior students of the school. It is not very difficult. Student should make their own article on the given topic and add it to Wikipedia. It is desirable to divide students into several groups, it will be easier and more productive for them to do this task.

First of all, they should receive their topics (before it teacher should check whether there is an article under such title or not. It there is such, students can just add some information to it). For example, they can give information about types of intelligence (there are 9 of them: verbal/linguistic, logical/matematical, naturalist, visual/spatial, musical/rhythmical, bodily/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal and existential). Articles should contain some optional sections such as definition, common characteristics, famous people of this type,   best ways of learning, some ideas for activating these poeple, top career choices and some examples of activities that can be used in teaching such people. Other sections they can add themselves.

Then each group should log in on thi web-site to be able to add new article. This process is quick and easy, and do not need any personal information. They can do it here.

There is a lot of useful information for those, who are for the first time on this web-site. It is helpful for students to read such sections as How to Write Simple English Pages, Useful, Schools. If they need help, they may ask questions at Simple Talk or Help. 

To post an article students should click Talk and then Add Topic. Here they can add they article and then post it. Remind them not to forget to click Save Page button not to lose their information.

Help students if they have some problems with navigating on the web-site or collecting information. You can easily check their work by printing in the topic in the search space and reading the article.