Topic summaries

Tools: wiki; online forum (optional)

Strategies: resource making; collaborative research; peer review

For a given subject, the facilitator places a list of topics onto a wiki. Students are encouraged to pick a topic by placing their name next to it on the wiki, or to add a new topic and place their name next to it. Students are asked to provide a brief summary of the topic, with references on the wiki, possibly prior to doing a class presentation on the topic. Over time this resource will continue to grow. Students could also be encouraged to add to the topics that are already there, (much like a mini version of Wikipedia) by adding resources and further explanations, which they feel are necessary to help someone understand the topic.

There are examples at:

http://d2project2007.wikispaces.com, and http://d3project2007.wikispaces.com (see Digital Arts and Copyright)

Source: David Bartolo

Find out more

For more about the tools and practice related to this activity go to:

Tools – Blogs and wikis, or
Case studies – Wikis.

To find more wiki activities use the links at the top of this page.