Wikipedias: A Student's True Collaborative Creation

So, I finally just finished my first Unit Reflection and got it approved by our professor!  It was very exciting because I find it very difficult to write the reflections.  It comes in handy for this week's blog on wikis though because part of my reflection was about how instead of having my students write Scientific Journals in my final unit plan like I had planned I had them create a wiki!  The class finished up their unit on energy with this project I designed with the main goal of instilling the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources.  They did a lot of research on these and created PowerPoints on the energy sources they thought that Fairfax County should use to be more environmentally friendly.  While they were presenting their PowerPoints we created a bar graph to show what each group chose.  Once they had all presented their projects we picked the top 3 resources from our bar graph.  They ended up being natural gas, solar, and wind.  We went on to learn about how to create wikis.  They even made an authors page and wrote about themselves.  Here are examples of their final collaborative wikis on our top 3 resources!  I thought they turned out great. 

Last year I used wikis in my classroom when we created an online database of Revolutionary War Heroes.  This turned out really well and the kids were able to learn about all of the people they needed to know!

So, do you have a project coming up where you could really test student knowledge about what they have learned?  Remember to think about your goal before beginning.  What do you want the students to learn?