This is a podcast of students explaining fire safety. You have to scroll down to the link that says "click to listen." This broadcast also highlights students experimenting with how to do a podcast. At the end of the broadcast about fire safety, the students are obviously frustrated and trying to work with the program. I don't believe they realize the recording is still going!
This is a quicktime movie that shows how to understand equivalent fractions. The teacher gives great explanations and uses students in this broadcast to give feedback in the demonstration.
http://www.sciencemag.org/multimedia/podcast/ If you like to learn about science this is the place to go. There are podcasts on just about any topic you can think of learning. It is amazing. This site has a lot of potential to motivate students to learn more about the world around them.
I had a hard time finding the "best" to post. I chose this one because it was about some of the latest research on autism.
http://podcasts.aaas.org/science_podcast/SciencePodcast_070713.mp3 This podcast is about environmental toxins that are entering our bodies through some of the foods we eat. Animals are picking up bio-toxins and as we ingest these foods we magnify the amount of toxins in our body. This podcast also has a segment on AUTISM and the synaptic interaction that is involved. No one really knows the exact cause. Scientist are looking at the synapse and finding certain proteins are missing. Essentially, genes are being looked at that will produce these abnormal protein levels. This could lead to genetic test for early identification and put these children in some sort of educational or treatment program.
Here is the link to the lesson I created on WikiTeach.org and the link for the lesson I edited.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/276
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/wikiteachmgr/action/lessonplan/iVar/233
I visited a couple of social bookmarking sites. The first bookmark was for a site that was about 10 lessons to teach your kids about money. I always tend to look for sites related to math. I also looked at a site that had math related bookmarks. Listed below is a site that I use very often and I also recommend this site to my students who are having difficulty in algebra.
http://www.coolmath.com/algebra/index.html
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/279
Here is the link for my lesson plan using flickr. In the lesson students are to photograph various tissue types, upload them to flickr, and then tag them appropriately.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/wikiteachmgr/action/lessonplan/iVar/221
I added an alternative procedure to the above lesson plan to make classroom management of the lab a little more effective.
Hi everyone!
I’ve posted my Life Cycle Of The Butterfly lesson plans on wikiteach.org at this link below. Enjoy ;)
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/278
Written by: Jonathan Orr
As a biology teacher I came across a wiki called wikispecies. Wikispecies is a open source free directory of species. In a true wiki fashion anyone can add articles about a particular species. This would be a great spot for students to contribute information about species that they encounter, and of course an excellent source of information as well.
A second wiki that I could use as an educator is wikiversity. Wikiversity is a place for educators to create and share learning materials. Teachers can place simple things like content, or teachers can post lesson plans.
A third wiki I have contemplated using in my classroom is wikibooks. Students can add and create content on the wiki. There are many books that people can contribute to including wiki textbooks. By creating a wiki textbook the students are really making the content their own.
I chose the Alan November blog @ http://nlcommunities.com/communities/alannovember/default.aspx
Since I have been commanded to remain current with new technologies and trends in technology in education, I thought his blog was a great way to see what's out there in the world of technology in education. Many of the entries require you link to iTunes to hear podcasts, and it recommends you subscribe via iTunes and new podcasts will be sent to you this way.
I find him humorous, down to earth, and quite simply "user friendly" - a nice feature in a sometimes robotic tech-laden world. I find the nicest piece that he highlights the work of others as what's cutting edge; he doesn't just champion himself as all knowing.
In my 11 year stint as an English teacher, before I started teaching computers this fall, my students often thought I was ready to fall off my rocker because of the ideas I would come up with to attempt to actually make teaching more fun.
I was charged each fall to help prep my 12th grade students for the dreaded SAT. I used the thick, cumbersome, and dreadful Princeton Review text, and the kids thought of it much like I did...a chore. A few years back, a good friend and French teacher told me she was doing French podcasts and posting them on her blog. She showed me where she was getting them from - quite simply iTunes in the Podcast section - and I looked around with her on that site. We stumbled across one, The Princeton Review Vocabulary Minute, and as quirky as it is, I loved it! It's basically a barber-shop quartet-like group who takes SAT words and puts them in context into a goofy song with some sort of theme. There is even a more recent one about Hollywood girls getting into trouble and going to jail - Lindsey, Nicole, and Paris (words are incarceration, exile, inebriated, discernment, and a few others).
The next day, I shared one of the podcasts with my senior class. Many of them gave them the raised eyebrow, scorning my choice as yet another stupid trick to actually get them engaged. But, as they listened, they started laughing, asking what this word and that word meant. I suggested we take 2 podcasts a week, and make those words the ones we would study to help prepare for the SAT. They agreed. They found the access easy, and many didn't need to use the dictionary to define the words. Their scores were higher on the quizzes. Imagine...they enjoyed learning SAT vocabulary.
One of the wikis that I visited and likes was School Computing, Technology in Kindergarten. This wiki gave a great overview of the use of Technology in Kindergarten. This is a wiki that is great for any kindergarten teacher interested in integrating technology in his or her classroom curriculum. This wiki help familiarize any kindergarten teacher with the use of technology in the classroom. You get the what, how, and why, of kindergarten technology from this wiki. There is an introduction, followed by standards, the rationale for the use of Technology in Kindergarten, barriers to using Technology in Kindergarten, hardware, software, examples of integration, resources, and assessment.
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Technology_in_Kindergarten
I am having a time getting this site to post properly.. but you know what they say...third time is a charm! Sorry, I had previously posted the incorrect link. This lesson plan is an art history and painting lesson that intergrates flickr as a means of allowing students to see close ups of waterlilies, which are the primary subject of Monets' "Waterlilies".
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/Wikiteach/WikiteachWriteMgr/action/edit/iVar/266
I picked a lesson plan on a subject that I knew a little something about. I was extremely hesitant to "tinker" with someone else's work. I hope/guess that's a feeling that will subside with more experience or exposure.
I added another component to Bobby's excellent Rock Cycle lesson plan. If possible, I thought it would be good to have real rock and mineral samples to observe after the Flickr or del.icio.us observations. Although the pictures may be of excellent quality, it's even better to feel and see the real thing.
I have edited Sheila's lesson plan by adding a introduction that connects the students to the real world and weaving. I also added a Google video that demonstrates a Lima woman weaving. I like how Sheila integrated math into the lesson by having the students measure their own yarn. Too often I hear teachers remark about the lack of measuring skills students have. I think this is because the measuring they are engaging in is isolated to a math problem rather than having a real world, working connection.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/Wikiteach/WikiteachWriteMgr/action/edit/iVar/275
This is the link to my WikiTeach lesson. I chose to create a lesson on Rocks & Minerals because I will start that unit next week. This lesson uses Wikipedia, Flickr, and a projection device. I plan to use the lesson in the near future.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/273 this is the lesson plan that I created. It deals with teaching the Electromagnetic Spectrum. The plan has the students using
http://en.wikipedia.org to gather information on health and federal control issues for electromagnetic radiation. The students are engaged in a mock trial.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/232 this lesson was modified to include use of http://en.wikipedia.org to investigate hurricanes and global warming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health THis was so interesting. I can see my students really getting into this because they use their phones all of the time. It also has some interesting discussions from people that think the information is incorrect and that there is not evidence that cell phones can harm you...
Precious has a great start to a class project. I just added a few more steps to give them more practice using the bookmarks they created.
I liked this plan a lot. What I did was add a little touch of "art" and site recognition by suggesting that instead of a lot of discussion and trying to recall streets in the city, that the teacher use a camera and take places of the things they plan to talk about during the unit. The direct link to the plan that I edited is below.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/Wikiteach/WikiteachWriteMgr/action/edit/iVar/119
This wiki is for users interested in audacity. It offers tips and tutorials about Audacity. It also lists other programs that are similar to Audacity according to the computer platform.
I found this WikiTeach Lesson Plan very interesting. I do not teach music, but I have a very strong passion for it.
Here is a lesson plan I created integrating Flickr/Del.icio.us technology for our Earth Science Unit (The Rock Cycle). This lesson is for third grade.
Here is a Wiki I came across I thought would be useful during our Dinosaurs and Fossils unit. It gives various states where fossils of dinosaurs were found. Children are always intrigued by knowing that at one point, a huge dinosaur roamed in now what is a current state.
As I was doing my vigorous search to find classroom friendly Wiki sites, I wanted to do it from the prospective of an educator (like me) who has never had ANY experience with Wikis. What usually helps me is if I can have access to a resource page. This link is to Education World, a wonderful resource for teachers that contains many useful topics. I did not expect to come across this on this site, considering I've used it for so many other things. It has some resources specifically for new teachers (and existing teachers) who want to try their hand at integrating Wiki technology into their classroom.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/250
This is my Soda Straw Weaving Lesson plan that I contributed to WikiTeach
I chose to edit a lesson plan that I believe was done by someone from this class or a class just like this one. It was a lesson plan for a DV tool kit. My contribution was a presentation of the chosen bookmarks and rationale for those bookmarks to the class. I also added a portion to the evaluation in which students would be graded on the presentation and participation in regards to feedback and comments.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/212
Here is my lesson plan for incorporating social tagging. I developed my lesson plan around fourth grade science and the curriculum concerning space.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/271
This is the link to my social tagging lesson plan that has been submitted to WikiTeach. It can be integrated with Flickr. I made an account at Flickr and posted a few examples from the project submitted, "Artist-in-a-Bag" lesson plan. As a part of integration, a teacher could use a digital camera and upload the students art to Flickr and share ideas with other kids.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/270
I am not overly excited about the wikis that I found either. Like some of the other students have stated, several of the sites are hard to navigate through and require crazy passwords. I am also not very thrilled about students or even adults reading information that "anyone" can add and because it is stated on a well advertised site the students and/or adults truly believe it. The wiki site that I found most useful is:
http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/ I thought it was a useful tool for not just librarians but any teacher. I also liked the fact that before you can add any information you have to email the webmaster and present what you are adding. There are also many helpful tools within this wiki like a syllabus creator and links to "how to blog". This could be very helpful to someone just learning about social computing.
I really wanted to do a lesson with Flikr, but I couldn't decide exactly what to do. Possibly I will use it with students to share images they collect during our upcoming Tunisian Studies trip (example), but I don't know what they would search for. I also thought about a digital microscope fingerprint activity where they capture their fingerprint with the digi scope, upload to flickr and then... I want to use the social networking tagging aspect of the site, but I just haven't grokked exactly how.
So my lesson as it is:
Using a Digital Microscope
Also, I love the song "The Erie Canal" and saw that one of the tags was for "Erie Canal" I thought, cool let's check it out. Unfortunately the link was not correct. I've added a new, hopefully usable link.
Enjoy
James Shin-Gay
I chose to edit a lesson that seems to have been created by a student in this class last semester. The lesson requires students to use Flickr as a resource to locate a photo that describes a chosen physics term from a unit just studied. The student produces a one-page product containing the description of the term, the photo chosen, and reasons why the photo supports the term.
I added an Extension to the lesson that encourages the teacher and students to create a wiki and display all the pages for a wider audience. Students could also seek other similar student-created sites. I also added obvious web resources.
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/230
Using del.icio.us for Social Bookmarking and Tagging as Support in a Research Paper
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/269
This lesson is just one part of an overall unit on writing a research paper. Students will learn to use del.icio.us for the bookmarks of their Internet resources. They will write descriptions that identify a unique quality of each site being bookmarked to help them keep track of which link is which. The tagging choices will help them categorize what part of the paper each site supports. A code tag in each bookmark will help the teacher easily locate the students' bookmarks for review.
I am looking forward to using this lesson with all of my classes.
FLICKR
I can use FLICKR at my place of business to help promote enrollment at my place of business. We can use Flickr to post pictures of the different style of dorms. We would take pictures of the different resident halls and post to the site, so perspective students and their parents will have the opportunity to view the dorms to help them answer a few questions before attending. We can also use Flickr to post pictures of key persons that one can contact with questions while in the process of making a decision to attend. The best part about it is that we would not have to make the site public; it can be a private site that only perspective students would have access to view, with a password.
I have found myself both amazed and frustrated as I've searched for wikis to explore. So far, I've enjoyed "teaching activities" the most. I had difficulty negotiating the site at first, but it's beginning to make sense now. I've also found it frustrating that many sites have made it so difficult to sign-up and/or log in to access the wiki. I feel that I would need a lot more time to become comfortable with some of these sites. It has been almost impossible to obtain the necessary password to be able to access and contribute to any of the wikis I have explored.
http://teachingactivities.pbwiki.com/
I saw that there were a ton of Wiki's! I did however find one that I liked, and would really like to explore further once the class is over. With teaching and taking two classes at Lesley, I haven't had the time to "play" with some of these great sites that I've come across.
I did like that Wikispace had an audio podcast format to show you how to set up for your account. At Wikispace, you can make a website where you can create webpages and edit them using their visual editor. Another good thing is that you don't need any technical "know-how" to operate the site.
From what I have read so far about Wikispace, it's like a blog, website and online community rolled into one. There are menus for help, community, about Wikispace. I've mentioned before that I like Wikipedia, but I never even imagined the company was so expansive. I was impressed by all of the "wiki's."
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction
I had never explored wikis before this assignment. I found several pages that were great, but I fell in love with Wiki-Teacher. This site has so many resources that any teacher should be able to use. I can't wait to share this site with my teachers. I also like the fact that you are able to search for standards lessons as well as a search by topic. After researching and using this site, one can't help but want to share the resources you have for the standards and topics already provided to be a part of this great teacher database.
I found this site to be very informative. I learned a lot about wikis from the bolg and the cute video that I'm going to try to post below.
This is the Wiki link that I choose:
Business intelligence applications and technologies can help companies analyze the following: changing trends in market share, changes in customer behavior and spending patterns, customers' preferences, company capabilities and market conditions. Business intelligence can be used to help analysts and managers determine which adjustments are most likely to affect trends. This could be very helpful at my place of business.
I am not too sure about this site. It took me a while to find something to edit because I really don't want to ruin someone's lesson plan. I know I worked hard on mine and really don't want anyone to edit it because how will it be useable to me then? Anyway, I added links to a lesson plan links page. Here is the link: http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/wikiteachmgr/action/lessonplan/iVar/93
I created a lesson for elementary school students for conflict management.
I created a lesson plan that would train teachers on how to use del.icio.us professionally as well as with their students.
Here is my lesson plan. I look forward to any comments or suggestions.
Assignment 3
Add to or edit a social computing article in wikipedia.
Prepared by: Bryan Tonini
For this assignment I added a link to social bookmarking within the article on social computing.
Note: My wikipedia ID name is belement (wikipedia recommended not to use your own name when creating an ID due to issues of privacy and spamming).
Link to article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_computing&action=edit
Link to edit history screen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_computing&action=history
Actual edit as shown in the history edit screen
cur) (last) 02:53, 1 October 2007 Belement (Talk contribs) m (6,771 bytes) (I added a link to social bookmarking to the existing list of social computing links) (undo)
Assignment 3
Create a use at work for integrating a social networking strategy.
Prepared by: Bryan Tonini
Flickr
Flickr is an online photo management service where you can upload, organize and share photos with anyone who has access to the internet. This technology could be used in my office to share images of ongoing construction projects with clients and staff (I currently work in an architectural office that concentrates on residential projects). Since most of our clients are located around the country, I believe that it would be helpful to have a central source where project images can be easily viewed and organized.
I propose to use Flickr in the following manner. Instead of emailing photos to individual clients, my office would set up an account on Flickr. On the construction site, field staff from my office would post current photo documentation of ongoing projects or projects that have been completed. Since Flickr is accessible to anyone on the internet, our clients, consultants and staff would be able to access real time photo documentation without physically going to construction site. If someone such as a client was unable to physically attend a project meeting, they could attend the meeting via a conference call and still see the project photos. Having project photos online would allow people on the project team the ability to view the project without being physically at the job site. This technology could also streamline decision making if the project team could view photos in real time instead of waiting for an email or the project meeting.
In addition to clients, my office could use the site to post images of projects or individual issues that could be discussed between staff in our offices around the country. I would predict that better solutions to project issues could be developed since a diverse group of staff would be able to view the photos and then discuss the issue.
http://flickr.com/
Assignment 3
Post a link to a wiki
Prepared by: Bryan Tonini
Curriki
Curriki is an educator focused wiki. The goal of this wiki is to “make curricula and learning available to everyone”. Curriki provides open source curriculum and other instructional information for grades K-12. The wiki has over 33,000 members and offers over 6,300 articles, web links and lesson plans in ten subjects such as art, social studies, math, science and the language arts. I skimmed a few of the postings and found that there is a lot of worthwhile information on the site. Some of the postings on the site include items such as math games, links to informational sites and ideas on lesson plans. Like all wikis, you are able to post comments on the posted materials. However, only members can post and see comments. In my opinion the site seems pretty robust and would be a worthwhile wiki to join and participate in.
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
After exploring several different wikis, I found the “Flat Classroom Project”. This wiki is used as a collaborative resource and presentation tool for two classrooms, one in Georgia and one in Bangladesh, to work together discussing and reporting on a variety of topics from Thomas Friedman’s book, The World is Flat. The students produced text, audio, and video to present their collaboration on each topic as well as maintained a blog with the teachers for discussion and assignment reminders. Judges from around the world evaluated the students' work. The content in each topic is complete, thorough and a real demonstration of the use of technology to share with students across the globe in the creation of the content, while presenting their results to the global community.
This wiki is a tremendous resource for the students on how to manage all aspects of the project. There are directions on making the audio and video and uploading them. The teachers are careful to address privacy concerns about students sharing information over the Internet. Some of the technology the students used in addition to the wiki and a blog included Google Video, Skype, dropload.com, evoca.com, and Flickr. The teachers presented at NECC this June, and this site won several awards recently. Also, Thomas Friedman has mentioned this project in his newest edition of The World is Flat just released for publication. This project is an amazing demonstration of emerging technology in an education setting.
Only after examining this site closely did I realize that one of the teachers was the person who writes the "Cool Cat Teacher Blog" I reported on last week!
This video is a good introduction to the “Flat Classroom Project”.
Here is the lesson plan I created. I apologize for it saying that a guest created it. I truly created it and then realized I hadn't logged in so it only shows me editing it. I have the notes to prove it if you want me to scan them and e-mail to you. I apologize again as this is the first time I have ever created anything using a wiki. You can click on the title or the link to access it:
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/Wikiteach/WikiteachWriteMgr/action/edit/iVar/261
I created this lesson plan utilizing Flickr as a means to display and critique photographs for the Yearbook Class. This would be best for grades 10-12.
I have been a subscriber to Mignon Fogarty's Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing since her guest appearance on one of the morning talk shows about two years ago. This site is great to use with students, but also a great tool for the teacher. Each of her podcasts is a short 5 minutes that zeros in on a specific topic. The brevity and topic choice makes these podcasts and excellent choice for a teacher refresher course, as well as for student instruction or support.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/default.aspx
I found an lesson plan on Brothers Grimm fairy tales. It basically was a direct link to Discovery web site. I encountered difficulty editing this site, so I my contribution was to create a new lesson plan as an addendum. I added to the Frog Prince lesson plan with the introduction of The Paper Bag Princess story by Robert Munsch. This story is a new fairy tale version where the roles are reversed. The prince is not a bit charming!
Link: http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/260
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/iVar/253
Above is the link to the lesson plan I created for French class. It involves the use of technology and is good for fourth and fifth grade levels.
I edited the Wikitech Lesson Plan Website by adding two science websites that have lessons for K-12. I could use some of the ideas in my foreign language class.
Maria
I searched everywhere for an elementary school level wiki. Quite frankly there wasn't much out there. Most of the educational wiki's were for high school level students and technology classes in middle and high school. I was hoping to find a wiki that relates to the subjects that I teach which are math and science. I did find some algebra wikis but they were a little too high level for my fifth graders. One wiki that I did find was from an elementary school in Seattle Washington.
It wasn't really used for students yet although students do participate in classroom blogs. It appears that this wiki replaces a school web page. I was drawn to it by the comments from one of the staff members at the school who is hoping they don't adopt Everyday Math or Investigations in their school. What a great way to debate that topic! Here is the link to his comments: http://arborheights.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/285387 . A wiki would be a great way to have students collaborate on a project. The only problem is if one of the students edits another when it is excellent work and makes it not so excellent anymore.
I am so glad to have visited www.wikiteach.org ! It was like a lesson plan heaven, and they are all free. In our district, we are just getting Microsoft Sharepointe up and running. In this technological day and age, it would be nice to have a data bank of lesson plans instead of looking through the "old" filing cabinet. Some of my colleagues see it as one more thing to do, but I think that it is an excellent idea. We have to turn our "paper copy" lesson plans in at our library in a binder. It is so aggravating to do that. I am hoping that they will create a school folder on Sharepointe where we can submit our weekly lesson plans, and the administrators can look at them online as opposed to stopping what they are doing and head down to the library.
Wikiteach seems like it could be a big hit with educators. I already like Wikipedia(smile), even though I know that you should double check anything that you get from the site. It's just so quick, fast and "in the know!"
At first I uploaded my plan but had left the PC for a few minutes. My page was still there with the lesson on it. I hit "submit" and it said that I was successful in submitting it as a "guest user."
I didn't know how to delete it, so I edited my own post to apologize. I then re-submitted my plan, "Soda Straw Weaving", which my kids absolutely love to death!!
This is a fun, and inexpensive way to teach "modern and portable weaving." All you really have to purchase are the straws, or if you have a business partner you can get them from, do that. The yarns can be purchased from one of everyone's most favorite Mart in the world...know what I mean?
Once you get the kids into this, I can guarantee you that you will hear talking, communication and maybe even a loud voice or two, but all of them are communicating about their soda straw weaving experience. They are all on task, they readily help others, and are actively involved in the process and are proud of their results.
This is my WikiTeach edited lesson plan. This lesson has students creating a webpage using a word document. I added several steps that would enhance the attractiveness of the page.
I found this neat teacher-librarian wiki for schools. Ideas being discussed include: ideas for using wikis with students and faculty, social bookmarking, links to blogs, open source resources for education, copyright friendly image sources, and booklists. The copyright friendly image sources makes it a great resource alone.
Last year we had a "trailing spouse" who was keen to experiment with anything and everything regarding technology, pretty neat guy, but sometimes difficult to keep up with. He had retired from IBM and spent his days probably similarly to how he worked for the 30 years he was with big blue. Anyway, he had tried to interest me in Wikis before, but I was hesitant, something new, something comlicated blah blah blah.
Now, I'm realizing his perception in understanding that Wikis are not just Wikipedia.
I searched for "Wiki middle school technology"
and found Middle School Information Technology which has some nice activities which I'm sure I would have loved if I had found them 8 years ago. As it is, I still like the design element in their course work, but our school has taken a bit different approach to technology in the middle school, so I can't directly use the ideas.
However, I was intrigued and checked out what the creator of the wiki had done, and found that she has been quite a prolific wikier (what do you call someone who uses wikis?)
Anyway, one that caught my eye was Tech in The Middle which as I read the purpose of the wiki, I found myself again wishing that this was around 15 years ago when I got my first tech job. MSCOFINO states that as she(?) has moved from one international school to the next she(?) has found little or no curriculum with which to do her job, and then needs to create a program from scratch. This is my fourth international school and at one of them, there was some work left from a previous tenent.
I believe that the wiki is one example of a shared network that will make shared learning and shared experience a reality. We don't need to reinvent the wheel. It's almost mind boggling the scope that wiki and web 2.0 activities could lead to. Imagine only half the world (3 billion people) working on one problem. O.K. maybe that's a bit extreme, I've been on comittees that were too big to be useful, but the idea is sound.
Another neat site I found while searching around is: Teacher Tube
Has "educational" videos.
James Shin-Gay
I believe that the first step in finding a wiki is to assess your purpose. We don’t randomly dial a number and talk to whomever is on the other phone line. The same holds true for finding a valid, resourceful group of individuals in which useful dialogue can occur. I wanted an ICT group with roots in the
I found a group of ICT staff in central and northern
NOTE- It you select WIKI from the right hand menu bar you will need to scroll down to fine the topics on the wiki page.
http://www.commun-it.org/community/leadandlearn/files/31/113/socialnetworking.ppt#256,1,Social
Networking isn’t just for kids!
I’m so glad I took the time to investigate this resource. Feedback welcomed.
Here is my edited lesson plan on WikiTeach. This lesson has students create a logo for an internet business.
I noticed after my post of editing this lesson plan, someone else in the class edited it as well. So when you clicked on my original link, you see their edits now. So I re-did my link from the history page of the lesson plan.
As I was searching the wiki sites, this one regarding technology jumped out at me. I figured that I wouldn't be the only student interested in the "One Laptop Per Child"(OLPC) non-profit organization. Before posting, I quickly scanned the entries and saw a duplicate. But, believing in the true spirit of "wikis" providing an outlet to encourage many viewpoints from various contributors, I'm going to share my response to this site. I haven't read the other entry, so I apologize in advance for any redundancy! I was totally intrigued by this humanitarian project. We had read about the Maine laptop project, but this one is global and on the cutting edge. Nicholas Negroponte, an MIT professor has devised a project to provide a laptop for every child on the planet, including developing and impoverished countries. Now, that's a pretty big undertaking. However, in the last two years he is closer to his dream. With the cooperation of Google and countless contributors, engineers, and volunteers, working in every capacity possible, they have developed a one hundred dollar laptop that is rugged, has WiFi with 2-3 times improved range, and a battery lasting 10-12 hours. According to the OLPC Project,their five core principles are child ownership, low ages, saturation, connection, and a free and open source. This is a definite step in closing digital divides! This web site consists of 4,178 collaborative notes, two thousand files, and two thousand or more registered contributors.The advantage of having the site in wiki is that it allows constant up to the minute updates. It encourages world-wide participation in terms of feedback, donations, and involvement. The open response areas allow concerns, questions, deliberation, and information, to be shared that may otherwise not be expressed, or have a forum available. The project is only in the testing phase at this time,but the global involvement and positive energy contributed, will launch this program into possibly becoming a reality. Who would have ever envisioned a dream of such magnitude?
Link: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home
