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The goal of this group is to determine if/how wikispaces can be used as a professional learning community structure.

//**Essential Questions:**//
 * Going deeper with our social media tools.**
 * 1) Are wikis valuable for my personal professional development?
 * 2) Do wikis provide the social features to meet my needs of improving my craft?
 * 3) What are the drawbacks of wikis?
 * 4) Are wikis appropriate to use with students?

Using [|Blooms Revised Taxonomy] as our structure we are going to move from //Remember,// and //Understand// which we worked at in the fall to //Apply, Analyze// and //Evaluate.// //Activity: Travel Partner//. Describe and summarize wikis.
 * **Remember:** Describe your social media tool (twitter, ning…).
 * **Understand:** Summarize what the social media tool is about.

Winter Session Activity: Spend time in partners or individually researching and digging deeper to address the next levels of learning listed below. Record your findings in the wiki. Spring Session Activity
 * **Apply:** Construct a theory as to why someone might use a wiki.
 * **Analyze:** Differentiate between how a technophobe or resister might react to using a wiki for learning and how you would react. (find supporting research).
 * **Evaluate:** Assess whether or not you think this is an appropriate tool for a classroom.