ABSTRACT
When I visited Shannon's classroom one day, I found it inviting and comfortable. There were couches, tables, and areas for quiet reading and working together. There were also long tables, some of them low to the floor where students worked on laptops and desktops. Students worked individually or in pairs or small groups. On that particular afternoon, three girls sat together with one laptop completing their book review from their book club, preparing to post it on Amazon.com. A boy and a girl were creating a glog, an interactive web poster, for their book report and adding video and web links to it. One boy sat in the corner and worked on the class wiki. He experimented with the font size and chose to highlight his responses in green, so that his responses stood out. Another boy sat next to me for ten minutes, showing me the class wiki. He explained that a wiki is a space where multiple authors can work together. They read each other's contributions and can even edit what others have written. He proudly told me how often he posts to the wiki. This was just another day in the fourth grade class of Shannon Blady. I asked her to share her amazing journey to reclaiming the joy of writing through wikis.
