My 2nd Article for Blogging. (WIKI)

This resarch was very interesting to me. This was narrowed down to writing poetry on the Wiki Pages. The Wiki site was developed to share knowledge about poetry among a group of pre-service English teachers.
This study was set up to get teachers to write, because if teachers can not model expectations for students and have poems, papers and etc. that need edited and edited again then students don't see that it is Ok for them to have to do and redo. Then comes the problem of students/adults don't just write unless they have the perfect paper.
The study helped teachers to introduce poetry to their students. The creativeness, options of what to write on, how to share it, but most of all take constructive feedback and use it.
the Wiki was great because this was set up to be a collaborative effort and a place where people could openly share and have projects edited and commented on.
It was important that later it was mentioned that digitally is not the only way to go with teaching, but it is becoming more widely used. The study went on for an academic year. There were 56 pre-service English teachers and Language arts. These people were based at Higher Education Institutions in the UK and Canada and preparing to the enter the teaching profession. Only four of these people had any experience with Wiki. Some had never even heard of Wiki. I started to really be able to relate to this study when I rememebered how I felt the first night when I walked into 556 and had no idea of anything. Some of the things they thought the Wiki would offer would be reflections of others, their own tastes in poetry, first experiences of teaching poetry, teaching resources, and drafts and edits of each others' poetry writing on-line.
They started out by having the participants define poetry and already there were red flags everywhere because they were quite anxious with what was being asked to do.
Wiki was very supportive to the creativeness that was shared by the pre-service teachers using Wiki. It was amazing how much better writers they became with poetry. What was really amazing was they were using technology that was digitally accessible. They loved the part of the Wiki poetry that allowed them to be creative, but most of all share and work collaboratively.
When it was considered little or no experience on the Wiki pages when the study started and now the use was booming the positive experiences far outweigh lack of use or negative.
This article as I stated earlier really hits home with me because of where I was the first night of class and where I am now. I feel if nothing else I can explore and use options with technology with my class. That is definitely not where I would have been today without this class. Am I the technology wizard of the century? No, but I am further along today because of the class and all of the activities that are and have been presented. This would be a great study to do with a group of teachers in a district strictly on the use of technology products and or programs.

Dymoke, S., Hughes, J., (2009). Using a poetry wiki. English Teaching :Practice and Critique December, Volume 8, Number 3, 91-106.
http://education.kaiato.ac.nz/research/files/etpc/files/2009v8n3art6.pdf