[Year 12 IPM] wiki textbook, blogs and podcasts

Thu Sep 7 14:27:08 EST 2006

Sounds great Michael! My Year 12 Systems class are using a wiki as a way
to summarise the exam criterion. I love the way it is so transparent!

Margaret

> 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
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> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] wiki textbook, blogs and podcasts
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>
> 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
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] wiki textbook, blogs and podcasts
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> 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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