Archive for the 'wiki' Category
And its goodbye from me
I’ve finally made the move to blogger. Edbublogs was fine for a while but I find blogger a sleeker and slicker beast.
My new blog can be found at : http://drandrewoliver.blogspot.com/
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Interesting Ways to Use a Wiki in the Classroom
Well in fact 9 interesting ways. I picked this up recently via Tom Barrett on Twitter (twitter.com/tombarrett). This is collection of slides held as a Google Doc. A variety of authors have come up with a number of unique and interesting ways in which wikis can be used to support the student learning experience. Most [...]
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Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students
By Ruth Reynard
Great article via Campus Technology (Web Link)
Instead of the usual tips for using blogs in education the author presents a list of the most common mistakes. As one commentator states this can be extended to other uses of learning technology, particularly wikis.
1. Ineffective Contextualization
One of the more effective uses of blogging is for [...]
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Pedagogy 2.0
Transforming Pedagogy through Social Software by Catherine McLoughlin and Mark J. W. Lee Web Link
Short paper which briefly looks at the opportunities offered by web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogging etc.) in terms of enabling students to become content creators. Consideration is given the notion of ‘pedagogy 2.0’ which is essentially a learner centred environment founded [...]
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Students – sharing images
Couple of interesting things on the Sargent Park Math Zone blog.
First off it’s good example of how a teacher is using the blog to set assignments / deliver a course (in this case to Grade 8 students, 13 – 14 year old).
And second note the assignment:
“Welcome to Math. Tonight you have an assignment. You have [...]
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How do you assess contribution in a networked classroom?
As mentioned in my previous post David Jakes blog post (A Single Word) relates to nature of contributions to a group effort and what defines a contribution. There are clearly levels but at what point does it become significant such that it’s owner could be rewarded?
The question was posed : how do you assess contribution [...]
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Evaluating Learning Process
University of Hertfordshire’s very own Martina Doolan on evaluating the process of learning. This short video covers the use of wikis in terms of using them to keep a record of the approaches students use during the course of their learning. Martina makes that point that in a traditional context, activities such as group work, [...]
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Google Vs Wikipedia
From the blog of Stephen Downes (Web Link). Look out because in the near future Google will be launching Google Knols.
A ‘knol’ is essentially a single unit of knowledge and so is similar to a learning object. Stephen Downes points out that Wikipedia articles can also be regarded as learning objects. [...]
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Wikis and Blogs Rules Ok
I’m currently trawling through a number of educational wiki sites (supplied to me by Marija Cubric) at Examples of Educational Wikis (Web Link).
So over the next few days I’ll be posting some examples here.
First off is a set of wiki rules which I found at this school wiki (Mr. Armstrong’s U.S. History Wiki, click here).
The [...]
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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. [...]
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