Monday night-Tool #6- Wiki-wiki.

Summaries is a tough skill for a 3rd grader. It seems that they have trouble differentiating the interesting from the important stuff. One application of the Wiki would be for the students to make a summary in teams, adding sequencing sentences to the summary and deciding what is important and what is interesting. The students can be divided in small groups, each group given a short story and the summarizing in the computer would be a center. The first student will write a couple of sentences, the second student will add a couple more, and so on. PBworks seems to have student accountability: See who changed what, and the page history lets you keep track of who contributed what.