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Blogs and Wikis in the classroom

Blogs and Wikis in the classroom. STAV Leaders Conference 2011. This generation. Content creators not passive absorbers. YouTube video blogger ( vlogger ) Natalie Tran purportedly earns $US100,000 a year.

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Blogs and Wikis in the classroom

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  1. Blogs and Wikis in the classroom STAV Leaders Conference 2011

  2. This generation • Content creators not passive absorbers

  3. YouTube video blogger (vlogger) Natalie Tran purportedly earns $US100,000 a year. http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/riding-the-tube-20101113-17rzy.html

  4. Blogs and wikis are tools which students use outside of the classroom So why not bring them into the classroom?

  5. What are wikis? • Wiki is a Hawaiian word for ‘quick’ • A website which is quick and easy to edit • A collaboration tool • Well known example: Wikipedia

  6. What are wikis? • Content is user generated and edited • YouTube: Wikis in plain English

  7. How I use wikis • Year 9 Science wiki • Evidence of teaching practice • Class projects

  8. How might you use wikis? • Simple website • Easy to setup and maintain • Don’t need to know HTML code or use specialised design software • Class projects • Collaborative research • Collate research • Revision • Digital portfolios

  9. Drawbacks • Risk: Open to manipulation • Monitoring • Collective knowledge

  10. Getting started • Wikispaces • 300,500 K-12 wikis • Free for educators • Create students accounts • Students need to become Wikispaces members • Set privacy – Public (open to all) to Private (members only) • Wetpaint • Free • Students need to become Wetpaint members (or sign in using Facebook or Windows Live accounts) • Set privacy – anonymous edit, members edit, invitees edit (most control) • Both services have limited storage

  11. Getting started Ultranet • Restricted to government schools

  12. In summary: Blogs vs. Wikis http://elhwikimania.wetpaint.com/page/Blogs+V+Wikis

  13. Demonstration • http://stavlc2011blogsandwikis.wikispaces.com/

  14. To do to start the session • Laptops • Connect laptops to internet • Sign participants up to Wikispaces and join wiki

  15. Welcome activity • What is a wiki? • What do these things mean for you and your students? • Why are we here?

  16. Evaluate an educational wiki • Locate an educational wiki relevant to your work. You might start with these examples, or with a Google search. • Evaluate the wiki based on the following criteria: • What is a basic description of this wiki? Include such elements as grade level, subject area, or other educational purpose. • Who is the intended audience for the wiki and what would they get out of it? • Who are the intended contributors for the wiki and what would they contribute? • How does this wiki accomplish something that only a wiki can accomplish? What other websites or media could be used to accomplish the same thing? • How could you adapt this a model for your own work?

  17. Reflection activity • What is the most important thing you learned today? • What are your next steps for using wikis in your work? • What do you want to learn more about?

  18. Your turn In this activity you will design a wiki page about an element. Your wiki must include: • A picture of the periodic table with your element highlighted • Symbol of the element • Atomic number • Relative atomic mass • Is your element a solid liquid or gas at room temperature? • Is your element a metal, non-metal or metalloid? • Is your element natural or man made? • Melting point • Boiling point • Density • Who discovered your element and when • Information about how your element was discovered, or who first used it and how it was used in history • What are the uses of your element? (This is to be more than a list of uses, you must include an explanation of each use.) • If your element has no uses, make sure you say this and have any other info that you can give. • What are some of the common compounds formed by your element? What are the uses of these compounds? What are the chemical formulae of these compounds? • Is there any other interesting information that you would like to tell about your element • Correctly referenced bibliography

  19. Q&A

  20. Contact Drew Chan Methodist Ladies’ College chana@mlc.vic.edu.au drewslchan@gmail.com

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