I made my Wiki page a place where my students can keep track of their writing. They will post their brainstorming, peer review, revising, and final draft Google Docs in the Wiki chart. That way all of their writing process is in one place and they can edit it as frequently as they want. They will also have to upload pictures or resources they want to use that have to do with their writing. I made my Wiki page for students who are writing a personal narrative, but it could also be used for a research paper or any kind of paper. Wiki is different from Weebly because it is a page for several people. Weebly is mainly used as a website for one individual, but Wiki can be used by a whole class and each person in the class can edit it.
Some advantages to using Wiki in the classroom are that every student in a class has the ability to edit and update their class Wiki page. The students and the teacher can post any sort of link and even Google docs. It is nice for the teacher that all of their students work is in one place. I can just click through the links and look at my students work, and there is no wasting paper or space. Another important advantage to point out is that the students in the classroom can look at other students work. It is a good way to share their work with the rest of the class. A disadvantage to the Wiki page is that only one person can edit it at a time, so if there is a certain date all of the work needs to be turned in on and every student is trying to use the Wiki, it will not work. Some people might have to wait or try to do it earlier.
The idea of uploading Google Docs to a wiki is interesting, but I didn't quite get the point of it. Why don't you let your students use Google Docs for viewing/collaborative editing, since their documents are already in Google Docs? Wouldn't it be a little bit confusing for them to create documents in one application and then upload them in a different application? Or maybe it was a specific feature of wikis that Google Docs don't have and that you were interested in?
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