[Year 12 IPM] wiki textbook, blogs and podcasts

[Charmaine Taylor]

Great idea Joe!
I would be wary about making the wiki public though. Perhaps keep it 
in-house because of the high risk of plagiarism. To prevent that, you or 
another teacher would have to check the wiki frequently and edit out any 
stolen/copied text. It's a beaut opportunity, though, to discuss the 
legal and ethical issues topics.
I had two experiences of new technology in class. One of my students 
uses his iPod as a backup HDD and another time my VET Business class 
were discussing some issue that cropped up during work experience. We 
didn't have an answer so one of the students whipped out his mobile 
phone and rang his employer who solve the problem immediately.

Charmaine Taylor
Sunbury Downs

Joseph Papaleo wrote:

> In relation to the digital textbook idea, I have waited for someone 
> else to suggest this, but no one has.  So I'll go out on a limb and 
> put this idea out into the IPM community, perhaps to ridicule, perhaps 
> others have also considered it, but not put it up for comment.
>
>
>
> I am seriously considering having my students write their own 
> collaborative textbook online.  I am looking at having a class text 
> book (Potts) and then creating a set of blank wiki pages for the 
> class.  At this stage, I am undecided as to whether it would be 
> restricted access or open to the public.
>
> Their task will be to prepare a summary and answer questions and put 
> their work onto the wiki.  Students will share the workload, but it 
> will be their task to read additional material (other books or 
> websites I will source) and add to the notes.  Of course, this sounds 
> like a lot of work, bit as "Student A" may have already done most of 
> the summarising, "Students B, C D E ..." just have to add other 
> tidbits or fix errors (the beauty of a wiki).  By carefully rotating 
> the tasks amongst the class, each will be given a variety of tasks 
> that must be done carefully as the other class members will hopefully 
> rely on them.
>
> I have been playing with a wiki for my Year 12 class in the latter 
> half of this year and found that weaker students had their answers 
> corrected online by better students and all of a sudden, they realised 
> how poor their work standard was and it improved each time it was 
> their turn to add work to the site. 
>
> I hope to then keep the wiki content for 2008 and beyond (remove the 
> questions each year) and then use this and Potts as a textbook which 
> they can continue to develop.
>
> I'll be the first to admit their are flaws with this, but I can see 
> lots of benefits too.  So do the students who contribute regularly as 
> they are sharing the resource and then doing extra reading/writing.
>
> If there is interest from other list members, I would consider opening 
> it up for others to join in.
>
> I am now looking at establishing a class blog or bloki and finding 
> ways to incorporate these ideas into the curriculum.  I saw other 
> members of the list discuss the possibilities of using podcasts and am 
> keen to look at this (I was stoked a few weeks ago when one of my 
> students took his iPod out to retrieve a .txt file of the Information 
> Processing Steps he had entered onto the iPod).  has anyone else seen 
> other examples of this use of the iPods?
>
> I struggle with numbers like many others and so with the new Study 
> Design, I've decided to use IT in my IT class and make it  rich, real 
> and relevant. 
>
> Regards,
>
> Joseph Papaleo
> Ivanhoe Grammar School
> Mernda Campus,
> Plenty
> joseph.papaleo at igs.vic.edu.au <mailto:joseph.papaleo at igs.vic.edu.au>
>
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