Here's a presentation from April about some wikis implemented at UIC 
during Spring 2009.
http://www.slideshare.net/charityanne/using-wikis-beginning-or-advanced-classes

It depends on the level of your students, *and how the wiki environment 
is presented, structured, and thoroughly incorporated with the rest of 
the course* as to how much they will produce in their L1 or the target 
language.

Whether you ultimately choose to focus on content or grammar/syntax/etc. 
is at your discretion, but we have found in several courses at UIC that 
focusing on content FIRST in the course of the wiki project helps 
students have the confidence to participate - then language can be 
addressed. Doing things in the other order can cause a high affective 
filter and hesitancy from students.


Charity Anne Caldwell

Technology Specialist
Sandi Port Errant Language and Culture Learning Center
http://lclc.uic.edu
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