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An interesting article in Edutopia describes a class using a wiki in much the same way that I have been considering for my ENG 383 class this spring. A class in America has joined in a wiki with a class in Bangladesh. I’m in discussion with Joe Essid here and some folks at Bilkent University in Turkey to see if we can create a wiki to support a writing center at that university.

My students last spring were wonderful and created a wiki to support folks who want to start writing centers in high schools. That wiki is linked on wikipedia, and its url is: http://learning.richmond.edu/twiki/bin/view/HSWritingCenters/WebHome

Local schools in Henrico County are now looking at the wiki, and one middle school with an IB program is going to try to start a center! My old students (now tutors in our writing center) have volunteered to help with the training for the middle school peer tutors. Jon Morris in Henrico is heading up this effort.  He has a site in progress for the program, which is really impressive.  If our wiki with Bilkent doesn’t work out as our project, I imagine we might find more ways to work with the talented and energetic folks in Henrico.  Collaboration is cool : )