Flattening Planets … with wikis!
The Flat Planet Project By Simon O’Carroll and Neil D’Aguiar
Basically using a wiki to facilitate an international online collaborative project on the environment from a Catholic perspective between two religious education classes: one in the UK and the other in Canada.
As per the recent examples the wiki is used to support student based collaborative projects. Each group consist of students from the Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School (UK) and students from Richard Challoner Secondary School (Canada). There’s some very good project examples here.
Check out the project for Group 1 Climate Change (here). Rather than just used one wiki page to display the whole project they have made the first wiki page into an index listing and have created separate wiki pages relating to specific aspects of the project. Each page has a strong mix of video, image and text. For example The Kyoto Protocol (here).
Again it’s worth remembering that these project pages were constructed through collaboration between students from two different schools and separated physical in 2 different countries and time zones.
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