The
sixth short project consists of the creation of a wiki. Photocopies concerning Wikis are at the UCR copy center in the course folder. Read the copies before beginning this project. These copies should also be used to support your next forum.
Sixth Project Instructions:
Create your own wiki using http://www.wikispaces.com. This is a free platform in which you may obtain a free upgrade for using it for educational purposes only.
This mini project should have the following aspects:
- Create your own wiki using http://www.wikispaces.com, and send wiki invites to your fellow classmates as well as myself (1%)
- Set up your wiki for the grade level and topic(s) already established from your other mini-projects (1%)
- Using grammatically correct English throughout (1%)
- Add 1 widget, such as a course calendar with events inserted in the calendar (1%)
- Add at least 2 pictures and/or logo which are appropriate for your grade level and topic (1%)
- Create at least 4 links within the wiki (1%)
- Create 1 original collaborative project as a base for students to work and comment on which is appropriate for the grade level and topic(s) (1%)
- Add at least one YouTube video widget which will be used to help support or extend the collaborative work students will be making on your wiki. The video should coincide with the level of your chosen group/grade and topic(s) already established within the previous mini projects (1%)
It
is important to review the videos first, and it is extremely helpful to
use the HELP visual instructions when creating your wiki. If you have
any problems or need to be shown hands-on how to do any element, please
feel free to see me during my office hours: Mondays 10-11:40 am office
11 or Tuesdays from 1 to 2 pm -office 11.
The following is a sample wiki which I used last year in American (US) Literature: http://tamatha-rabb-educational-wiki.wikispaces.com/
This is our group's wiki http://sportsandleisure8th.wikispaces.com/
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Here is our wiki http://mamekero0.wikispaces.com/
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http://classroomcommands.wikispaces.com/ Mau Cris, Karla & Jose Luis.
ReplyDeleteFernanda, Libia, Yoser and Marlon!
ReplyDeleteThis is our wiki project: http://io6042-classroom-objects.wikispaces.com/
http://1classroomobjects.wikispaces.com/Podcast+Project
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ReplyDeleteWithout a doubt, a wiki is one of the most important tools in education because it consist on a collaborative website, which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. This is a source that can be used in class or at home, since students are allowed to contribute to the page, to make corrections, or to add information. However, we also can restrict the page, so that only the students who are invited can contribute, by doing this, we can guarantee our students safety. This type of pages can greatly contribute in our classroom, due to it can be easily taught to students and they can effortlessly get involve with it. As Richarson (2010) mentions, “giving students editorial control can imbue in them a sense of responsibility and ownership for the site and minimize the risk of someone adding something offensive” (61). The author remind us that the use of this tool can help us to enhance student´s participation, but also to control what is written by students.
ReplyDeleteIn a classroom, a wiki can be used in different ways, for example we can use it to write a collaborative essay in groups, so that we can form the groups within the wiki and assign a page per each group. Also can be useful for research, in this sense, students can write their reports or advances in research or even present their final findings on the wiki, they can also receive feedback from the professor, but also from their classmates.
This project was one of the most shocking ones for me because I saw how and cooperative work can be asses during the different homework assignments. With this assignment the quote that Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) is well apply, he points out "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all knowledge. That's what we are doing". During the Wiki process I as a teacher am able to check that all the students in a group project are really doing constructing a cooperative knowledge were they project their ideas and suggestions. The problem in elementary and secondary schools nowadays is that teachers are trying to implement technology; however, they ask for individual assignments which divide the students, and knowledge is not form as a group. I found this wiki as an solution to stop the division among students during the implementation of the technology. Will Richardson on his article "Wikis" mentions: "It's a great example of how to begin to integrate some of these different tool into an online learning ecology where students are doing meaningful work for real purposes" (p.65) As the author says students are working on something that really fills their necessities of an technological world. In my classes I would like to use it in an essay with a mix students from different sections, so I can assess how well they work with "strangers". The other is to do a brainstorming for a course project where they have to give ideas to improve the course or the school.
ReplyDeleteI consider wikis as ones of the most useful and reliable platforms on internet that can be used in education in order to support students’ learning process. Throughout wikis, teachers can enhance students to work collaboratively due to wikis are essentially simple websites that allow their members to create and edit content. By creating and editing content students improve their language skills and teachers can monitor their progress. These active learning procedures involves wiki participants working together to solve problems leading to increased understanding of concepts to be learned. Richardson (2010, p.61) has stated that “in using wikis, students are not only learning how to publish content; they are also learning how to develop and use all sorts of collaborative skills…in essence students begin to teach each other” that’s why collaborative learning is significant, the less experienced students are helped by these group activities, and more competent students reinforce their knowledge as they explain the material to others.
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of a Pictionary which recalls vocabulary studied in class, then, students are motivated to create short paragraphs where they describe a little bit about the given words, (e.g. sports, classroom objects, leisure activities and hobbies, tourism). Actually, wikis can be employed in varied forms, discussions, research projects, essays.