A wiki is an online website that allows collaborative editing of content by members of a group and can be viewed publicly. Students are free to navigate each others work in a non-linear fashion; this would be a great way for students to work together to share ideas and receive feedback from one another.

A wiki is able to be accessed from home and gives students an opportunity to add or remove their ideas on the wiki even when they are not in the classroom. Students may also add questions to the wiki that they may have concerning assignments or projects, or they may ask for greater information on a topic that they did not fully understand in class.

Farabaugh (2009) also makes the point that when using wikis in classrooms, teachers become “more clearly a coparticipant rather than a leader” (6). The discussion on wikis used in classroom settings can constantly evolve, and each participant has a chance to share their own body of knowledge rather than passively receiving it.

In the case of Romeo and Juliet, I believe it would be a great idea to have students work in groups and look at a particular scene. The end goal would be for each group to write on the shares wiki page on that scene; groups would then write connections on how each scene connects to one another, how character development has occurred from one scene to the next, and shared themes between scenes. Teachers may also wish to add writing prompts to the wiki page before each class. Each student would have to respond before each class and the responses would be graded for completion marks.