Evaluation+of+an+Educational+Wiki

=Title: Evaluation of An Educational Wiki﻿= http://mathsyear7.wikispaces.com/

1. Who designed the wiki?
This wiki was created by Maryna Badenhorst

**2. Who is the wiki for?** The wiki is for 7th grade math students.

**3. What is the purpose of the wiki?** The purpose of the wiki is to provide links to problem solving pages as well as interactive activities and homework information. The wiki also contains a course outline and weekly class information.

**4. What subject(s) is the wiki for?** This wiki is for mathematics.

**5. What are the main contents included?** Just about any mathematics topic you can think of that would be introduced or studied in or around the 7th grade has a page on this wiki. There are also numerous mathematics topics that would be considered enrichment in middle school. The full list of pages includes: Algebra, Alphabet Maths, Anamorph, Ancient Egypt, Angles, Animal Maths, Assessment and Thinking, Astronomy, Big Number Facts, Brag Page, Calculator, Calculators and converters, Christmas Maths, Circles, Classroom Decorations, Coins, Compounds, Conversion, Cooperative Learning, Coordinate Geometry, Course Outline, Course Outline Mrs. B's class, Dice and Spinners, Dictionaries, Drills, Early Years Maths, Easter Activities, Excel, Extension Maths Week-by-week, Extras, Farming, Fibonacci Numbers, Foldables, Fractals, Fractions, Freeware, Games, Golden Ratio, Google Lessons, Graph paper etc., Hands On, Homework, ICT integration in Maths, Interactives, Interdisciplinary Resources, Investigations, iPod Touch in Maths, Jewellery using Mathematics, Lesson Plans, Life Skills Maths, Lines and Curves, Links, Logo, Magic Squares, Maps, Math Blogs, Math Jokes&Oneliners, Math mats and squares, MathChat, Mathchstick Maths, Maths about Me, Maths Fun, Maths Literacy, Maya, Measurement, Moebius, Money, Mother's Day Maths, Movies with Maths, Multiplication, Music Project, Naplan, Netbooks, Networks, Number systems, Nursery Rhyme Maths, One Minute, Online Tools, Optical Illusions, Origami, Pascal's Triangle, Pi, Pizza Math, Place Value, Posters, Prime and Composite, Printable Games, Problem Solving, Puzzles, Pythagorean Theorem, Quilts, Recreational Maths, Reflective Tools, Rock Paper Scissors, Roman Numerals, Royalty Free, Shapes, Soccer, Songs, Symmetry, Tangrams, Teacher Resources, Tessellations, Timers, Times Tables, Valentine's Maths, Vict Essential Learning Stads, Video Tutorials, Vocab and Cheat Sheets, Web Notes, Web Quests, Weekly Problem, Work Sheets

**6. How do the participants contribute to the wiki?** This wiki is protected. Everyone can view pages, only members of the wiki can edit pages.

**7. Do you think the wiki serves its purpose well or not? Explain.** This wiki is primarily intended to guide students to other pages on the web that relate to the math topics listed within the wiki. As a reference source this wiki does an outstanding job. I will be adding it to my math resource sites on my classroom blog soon.

**8. Report a thing or two you like and dislike about the wiki.** I really like that I have been given permission to edit this wiki so that I can share some of my own favorite learning sites with other teachers as well as their students. I like that the opening page had some inspiring words including these “To be a good Mathematician, you must be willing to try and try again. Do not give up if you don't succeed at first. In many cases, the problem is not that people don't understand Mathematics, it is that they give up too soon.” I also absolutely love the “About me” page because it has an extensive list of internet “places’ that the creator of this wiki can be found. It is clear that she has a passion for both mathematics and technology. If I had to pick out anything I didn’t like about the wiki it might be that it is for the most part intended to be a delivery system of information. It is not very interactive on its own but many of the links within the wiki take you to very interactive web pages that will help students to learn difficult mathematics topics.