Rocking Wikis About Rocks

The rockstar trading assignment was really interesting to me. The assignment itself was not an arduous task. It was easily completed in class and really just involved finding the information provided on the website that was given. The point behind the assignment is what I found to be really neat. After each group had finished the class had the ability to study and learn about each different gemstone right there on the wiki. This would be especially useful in a classroom in preparation for tests and exams. Instead of a teacher putting together a study guide for students, wikis allow the students to create their own study guides with each others easily accessible information. As a prospective history and government teacher I see many uses for this technology. For example, when studying topics like U.S. Presidents, or Constitutional Amendments, or Supreme Court cases, students can be grouped and assigned individual topics and then through the wiki study the subjects as a whole. This also benefits the teacher because it easily shows what information or topics the students are struggling most with based on what pages are viewed the most, or aren't entirely complete with the necessary information.