What makes a wiki special, and so much greater than a traditional website, is that students have the power and ability to create the content that makes up the bulk of your site. Through the "Easy Edit" feature, anyone (it's up to you whether contributors have to be registered users or not) can contribute to the content of your site.

For example:

• Students can work collaboratively on an online study guide.
  • Examples: AP Economics students wrote and edited the following pages
    
  • Demand as seen by a Purely Competitive Producer
  • Profit Maximization in the Long-run
  • Monopoly Demand
  • All of the content on the above pages was added and edited by students, EXCEPT the graphs:
    • Graphs or other images drawn on a SMARTBOARD in class can be saved as JPEG files and uploaded by the teacher to wiki pages!
      

• Students can connect the content being learned to what's going on in the news.
  • Example: Once per unit, students are required to post a link to an article from the news relating to the topics covered that unit
    • "AP Econ in the News"

• Students can extend in-class debates and discussion in an online forum.
  • Example: In AP Economics, students are encouraged to debate the philosophical and idealogical sides of the field of economics online. They do this in each unit's "Student Thought Forum"
    • "Student Thought Forum: Basic Economic Concepts"