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Due to the potential benefits of the wikis, they are increasingly gaining popularity in educational settings. In the educational context they have been used for various purposes such as managing research projects, publishing course materials and completing writing assignments. This type of Web 2.0 tool provides a number of useful functions, such as creation of content by multiple users, tracking history of users’ actions, comparison between different editions and roll-back to earlier versions of the wiki, allowing teachers to monitor learners’ co-authoring process. Because of these functions, wikis have been claimed as facilitators of collaborative writing, group discussion and interaction. However, wikis are not inherently collaborative. After a brief review of the relevant literature on the importance of interaction in the learning process this communication presents some preliminary results on the use of wikis by pre-service elementary school teachers. The implementation of virtual lab notebooks hosted within a wiki environment in the scope of a course on biology is described. Students´ perceptions regarding the implementation of the wiki are explored, namely its challenges and potential benefits. In order to achieve this goal, participants were asked to write a reflexive essay about their use of the wiki. A content analysis on this data followed. An additional goal is to understand the kind of interaction promoted by the wiki. For this purpose, the individual contributions to the wiki that occurred during the learning process were
analyzed and categorized. Follow-up interviews were conducted to gain insight into students’ decisionmaking
process. The results are discussed in view of identifying factors that may lead to a more successful integration of the wikis in science lessons and to improve pre-service teachers’ confidence in using Web 2.0 tools for pedagogical purposes.
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Wiki Collaborative teaching Lab notebook Students’ interaction Pre-service teachers
Citation
Valente, B., Maurício, P. & Teodoro, A. (2012). Pre-service teachers’ ideas of collaborative work when using a wiki to construct a lab notebook. In L. Chova, I. Torres & A. Martínez (Eds.), EDULEARN12 - 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (pp. 1525-1534). International Association of Technology, Education and Development – IATED.