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 [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************