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USING A WIKI FOR A NARRATIVE WRITING LESSON

Use of a wiki in writing a new ending to a fairytale supports teaching by enabling children to explore their own learning. Students can choose the font, font size and colour to suit their learning. They can also choose to add visual representations in their story, such as clip art, photos and scanning their own drawings and placing them into the wiki. This can be seen in the following sample:



In this sample, the student chose to use photos to illustrate the story. They also placed the text on the left side and the photos on the right side of the wiki page. Students writing can reflect their preferred learning styles in their choice of layout, such as layout and the amount of text and illustrations within each page, as seen in the above sample. All these processes require students to use higher order skills to find out how their wiki works and how they can create their narrative writing within this technology. It is through these learning processes that students are able to personalize their writing in ways different to traditional methods.