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=Welcome to the Piasa Bluffs ISI 2010 Wiki!=

Today's Task:
1. Please begin by reading the article entitled "Wiki Wiki What?!?" from the //Stretch Your Digital Dollar// blog. [|Wiki Wiki What?!?] 2. Once you are finished reading the article, meet with your reading group/book club and discuss the article using "The Last Word" technique. Remember to select a recorder who will summarize the group's key thoughts when we reconvene as a larger group. 3. After we have shared our reactions to "Wiki Wiki What?!?" we will read the first few pages of one of my favorite novels--//Speak// by Laurie Halse Anderson. 4. Once you are finished reading //Speak//, you will go to your reading group's area by clicking on the appropriate link at the left of this page. 5. There, you will respond to the article using the literature circle role that has been designated to you. (If you would like to choose a different literary circle role, that is fine as long as you clear it with your group members first.) 6. After you have responded to the article, be sure to read the responses posted by your group members (or even the responses of other reading groups). You can add to their comments, pose questions, or revise your own posting. Be sure to respond to the discussion director's questions!) 7. Finally, please respond to "Jessica's Big Questions" in order to help me resolve some of my own questions regarding the use of wikis in education.

NOTE: Jeff's group and Patti's group have chat enabled on their reading group pages. Ralph's group and Renee's group do not. I'm curious to see if enabling this widget helps or hinders the discussion process. This will be addressed in the "Jessica's Big Questions" section.

ADDITIONAL WIKIS: Before this demonstration, I had only used wikis as a construction tool for building webpages. For my British Literature class, I have created the following wiki to post notes/assignments/handouts. http://pilgreenbritishliterature.wikispaces.com/ The following wiki was created at the end of the school year as an e-edition of our school's literary magazine. http://wesclinliteraryclub.wikispaces.com/