Writing a Wikibook

Wikibooks are valuable resource to teachers. Students are often hesitant about reading new novels. By incorporating wikibooks into the classrooms, the students don't just read the book, but they analyze it through explanatory notes, introductions, summaries, questions and answers, charts, lists, indices, references, wikilinks, pictures, and audio. Wikibooks are made available to everyone so students often enjoy getting feedback from others besides just their teachers and classmates. They also like to further enhance their wikibooks with video clips, podcasting of literature discussions, and anything else that they can find to add to the wikibook. One student stated, "Here, writing allows us to put it all down...so we can return and rethink it." By using this kind of technology in conjunction with literature, it helps students to fully explore the text beyond just reading the assigned chapters.