walk through wiki

This website was interesting in the fact that it has ideas and suggestions on how to use wikis in your classroom. I especially like how it told the difference between a wiki and a blog because I was confused on that aspect. The both seemed similar to me and this site helped clear the difference up. Another thing I think is helpful on this site is the abundant use of activities and rubrics. This is helpful for first year teachers like myself. This site has advice for "newbies" meaning new teachers and what we can do to survive our first year teaching. Some advice are, but not limited to, is finding a mentor, get with a professional organization, panning ice breakers for your first day etc, I find all of these to be helpful. The website where you can find these helpful hints among others is the link I provided here  http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/activity/celebrate-hispanic-heritage

One thing about this site that I wish had a little more is information on teaching Spanish. There are a couple sites that I found on say and repeat the Spanish alphabet and one activity I found on Cinco de Mayo. I would like to see more options under this topic. I would also like to see lesson plans under this website which I did not find. All I found were very basic activities for the elementary age group which is great, but the site says it offers hundreds of lesson plans and unit plans which I need help on constructing so that was the only aspect I wish this site had more of. Overall, this was very helpful and I enjoyed looking through this site. I can see now the advantage of using a wiki verses a blog in the classroom and one major positive aspect was the collaboration of a wiki.