[Year 12 IPM] wiki textbook, blogs and podcasts

Thu Sep 7 12:07:43 EST 2006

At a recent conference I was introduced to the idea of Wikis.
So impressed by it that I decided that my next research assignment would
result in a class wiki.

My Year 10 programming class was researching a old programming languages
(please don't start a thread of the educational merits of this) and they
pasted their research into a Wiki which only the class could access.
This shares the information instead of having oral presentations which
may take up 2 or 3 classes and generally bore the students.
Since then I have an Art teacher creating a Wiki for her students who
are researching various modern photographers. She has dumped the planned
PowerPoint presentations they were all to do and they will share their
research in the Wiki.
We are using http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers which is free
for educators and on-line so access can be from home as well.

My network administrator also liked the idea and is creating a technical
support wiki for staff and students that is accessible internally only.

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With thanks 
Michael Torsello 
Director of Computing 
St Margaret's School, Berwick 
Ph: (03) 9703 8111 

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Stephen Digby
Sent: Thursday, 7 September 2006 8:22 AM
To: 'Year 12 Information Technology Processing and
ManagementTeachers'Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] wiki textbook, blogs and podcasts

I think it is a fantastic idea !!!!
Wouldn't it be loverly when all contribute to wiki's within wiki's in a
free online sharing rather than the Current Continually reCreated
Copyright Compartments......

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Joseph Papaleo
Sent: 06 September 2006 09:57 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] wiki textbook, blogs and podcasts

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

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