[Year 12 IPM] wiki textbook, blogs and podcasts

[Keith Richardson]

Sounds great Joseph.
My IPM kids this year have really enjoyed shared group work for the
final sac preparation, including assigned summary creation areas,
handout preparation with Powerpoint restricted to headings integrated
with the handout, evaluation of one another's work (assessment),
contribution by each student of a variety of test questions along
predetermined lines, (I then turned this into a Moodle quiz for
everyone). All of the stuff created by the kids I put into a
downloadable resources 'activity' for them to have free use of during
their pre-sac study period.
They liked it so much, that they have proposed (accepted by all
including me) they set up a Moodle Glossary. The way Moodle can
contribute to student ownership of the work is an important
success-ingredient I suspect.
Joseph, I am interested in hearing from you how it all goes.
Warm regards, Keith


On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:56:30 +1000, "Joseph Papaleo"
<josephpapaleo at gmail.com> said:
> 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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