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Great idea Joe!<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Charmaine Taylor<br>
Sunbury Downs<br>
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Joseph Papaleo wrote:<br>
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cite="mid863f1d760609060456q2c37c395p3dd4f5c9fd144678@mail.gmail.com">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.
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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.
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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.
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.
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If there is interest from other list members, I would consider opening
it up for others to join in.<br>
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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?
<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Joseph Papaleo<br>
Ivanhoe Grammar School
<br>
Mernda Campus, <br>
Plenty<br>
<a href="mailto:joseph.papaleo@igs.vic.edu.au">joseph.papaleo@igs.vic.edu.au</a><br>
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