Archive for the 'wiki' Category
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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Flattening the Classroom with Wikis
The Flat Classroom Project By Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis.
Again another collaborative project managed through a wiki. The Flat Classroom Project is a global collaborative project for middle and senior high school students. One of the main goals of the project is to ‘flatten’ or lower the classroom walls so that instead of each class […]
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Discovering Utopia with a Wiki
Another wiki from the class of Ben Wilkoff, (click here).
Similar in style to the wiki mentioned in my previous post:
“The students on the Discovery team are creating a pluralistic vision of perfection in society. They use this wiki to answer all of the great questions of society (What is the role of government, What […]
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What’s Your ism?
Interesting school project which makes use of the wiki to host individual projects while at the same time involves collaboration through the discussion facilities.
“I want my students to know who they are, completely. I want them to be able to stand up to people who disagree, and I want you to know that they are […]
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Wiki + Students = Course Creation
Another example of using the wiki to involve students in content creation. This example however takes things a step further and allows students to structure the whole course site. So as well as collaborating on adding content the students also include indexes, FAQs , assignment guides etc.
According to the tutors, Michael Jones and David Gelb […]
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British Romanticism and the Wiki
A great example of students using a wiki to collaborate on creating an online resource in this case specific areas associated with the Romantic period in Britain (ca. 1789 - 1824).
The main project site can be found here where the tutor outlines their reasoning behind the project. This boils to finding an alternative to PowerPoint […]
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My class notes wiki
A recent post by Vicki A. Davis on the Cool Cat Teacher Blog relates to a nice example of using wikis.
Bascially shoe uses the wiki to focus her classroom actvivity ( a wiki centric classroom as she refers to them). She’s created a standard template on which she records weeks current activity with headings such […]
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