Wiki: work together - be successful

A wiki has an advantage over a newsgroup or a forum—the wiki is continually improved and updated. In contrast, a forum may briefly excite a huge amount of passionate interest with the consequence that it will wander to untenable length and finally be unusable.

Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. 

It gives teachers immediate, relevant, and direct insight into student engagement and contribution.

 Wikispaces Classroom is built around a familiar communications newsfeed that encompasses the work of the class and a private social network. 

Having a place to manage all the activity, resources, conversations, and projects in your classroom is essential for keeping students, and teachers, organized and working together.

When you turn the individual pockets of information in your class and school into collaborative knowledge communities, you build the capacity of every student and of your entire institution to contribute, learn, and achieve.

Face-to-face and in-class time is essential for effective teaching and learning. 

Teflpedia (http://teflpedia.com/)

Teflpedia is a wiki dedicated to everything associated with teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) or second language (TESL). 

You could:

1. Have a look at our list of websites that provide free lessons - they may help you with your next lesson.
2. Sign in, create a userpage and use it to advertise yourself. Teflpedia allows discrete use of self-promotion on your own userpage.
3. Upload a lesson of yours to show the world your creative abilities.
4. Learn how to edit a wiki - Wikis are growing in popularity, and this is an excellent place to learn wiki-editing skills.
5. Contribute to the growth of something new and be involved in this in its earlier years.
6. Write an article about something you've recently learnt - a good way to make sure you have learnt or understood something is to write an article about it and get it peer-reviewed.
7. Teflpedia has articles which include advice for new teachers.
8. For the most experienced teachers out there, i.e. those of you who have been there, seen it and done it all - yes, you know who you are - Teflpedia serves as a quick reference providing useful links to an almost infinite number of resources and dedicated websites available on internet. You'll find tried-and-tested ideas for warmers, wordlists, pronunciation exercises, and the odd cultural aspect of the UK or the US that you might develop for use in class, among other interesting stuff.
9. Participate in our ongoing debates.
10. Pop into our teachers' room to get feedback on any ideas, concerns or just for that friendly chat over a cuppa.
11. Bend wills in a Debate