Wiki as a Tool for Web-Based Collaborative Story Telling in Primary School: A Case Study

Overview

Wikis are simple to use collaborative hypertext authoring systems. In recent years, these systems have caught the attention of the education community, because they embody many aspects of personal empowerment and communication between learners. To date, most work on Wiki in education has focused on use for information creation and sharing by students at the post-primary level. This paper presents a case study where primary level students (Grade 4-6) used a Wiki for collaborative storytelling. The paper reports on the experience with this activity in the course of 5 semesters since 2002, each semester comprising 9 hours of class time.