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As you may recall from our information literacy studies, Google ranks search results as if the sites were competing in a popularity contest. But that will favor older articles, because the newest articles simply have not been online long enough to have as many links pointing to them as the oldest articles. SWiK finds newer articles faster because the results are listed by 'recent'. Try searching for Linux + whatever interests you…'
This is actually a 3 draft of my lesson. I apparently copied the link before saving it so my previous link was blank. sorry. Live and learn. smile.
Caryl
Topic 3 Wiki Lesson
Hello Everyone
I discovered this link a few months ago. This is a national real estate site that quickly values your house and provides aerial photos from north, south, east and west perspectives. Try entering your address and then keep drilling down. Look for Birds Eye View which is composed of aerial photos from Microsoft Virtual Earth. In my experience working with local things in my area, the Microsoft site gives lower level and thus more detailed photos. I can even make out my pickup-truck parked at my mom's house on the particular day that the flyover was done.
This site will work with Mac computers but not with Safari. You must use Firefox or Netscape which are alternative browsers.
I really like this site I found.
This sight was a big help to me in understanding how teachers could wiki in the classroom.
The podcast takes you step by step to create any page or to save and store information.
I teach spreadsheet design to my 5th graders and up and thought this would be a great lesson with a bit of tweaking.
I have always done a bookmarking lesson for my intermediate students (4th-6th grade) and so I have changed this around a bit to incorporate del.icio.us into the lesson. A major problem is that our district does not assign our student's emails and I would have to have them use some free email source in order for them to register and use the service. I am also a bit leary of some of the content that may cause some problems with our parents.
In crawling the site, I found a lesson that had the students create a powerpoint of the new features of Office 2007. They were to use del.icio.us to get information. I updated it by linking a tutorial by David Muir Simply del.icio.us. It is a good background and reference for new users of del.icio.us internet boookmarking.
Edited Lesson Plan
I had a tough time creating a lesson that integrates the social tagging aspect of flickr or del.icio.us. I created this:
Social Tagging Lesson Plan
I also have a del.icio.us account for my class so that all my students can have access to the same websites that I use as visual aids for my classroom presentations. The students seem to like the availability of the information at all times.
A wiki site that I liked was called Pbwiki.com. It is advertises that it is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich to make a wiki. Actually, it was pretty easy. However, I think some of the features are confusing. If you want more features, you can pay a monthly fee for different levels.
I made a wiki to use with my lesson plan " A Wiki Story". I plan to try it with my students. The wiki is called mrstwiki and below is the web address:
Mrs. T Wiki
The address for A Wiki Story is:
A Wiki Story
I also made a wiki with Wikispaces for my Study Group. I wanted to see which one I thought would be easier to use with students and adults. It was very easy to use also. It was a little hard to get the writing in the format I wanted. I am going to share this wiki with my Study Group and see if we can put information on it to share with our faculty. I did not have to come up with a log-on or password. It will be interesting to see if my follow teachers want to use it.
Study Group 2 Wiki
Study Group 2
After reading our assignments, I feel I have a much better understanding of a wiki. I had heard about them about 3 years ago at a technology conference. I was not sure I like the fact that everyone could edit the page. I feel more comfortable with that concept today. I think wiki have a lot to offer education in the future.
Wiki seem to be free at the moment. However, blogs began that way and now their is a monthly cost depending on what feature you want.
Mary
I edited a lesson plan called City History, City Streets
The link to the edited lesson plan is:
City History, City Streets
Mary
My Lesson Plan
My lesson plan on WikiTeach is called A Wiki Story. Here is the link for the lesson plan:
A Wiki Story Lesson Plan
Mary
My lesson is on writing a descriptive paragraph using animal pictures. The lesson incorporates Wikispaces.
I created a lesson plan to go along with my spring animal book reports. I like to have the students obtain information not only from books, but also Internet resources. Using a social tagging account through Del.icio.us, the research experience will be greatly enhanced. Further, it will save time for both the students and me. I like the idea that I do not have to find all the sites students may need; students and their families can assist in the research process and sharing.
By the way, my WikiTeach screen name is "readingkh".
I chose to edit a lesson plan entitled Charlie and Chocolate Factory: The Chocolate Room. The lesson focuses on one chapter from this famous book. I simply added the last four extension ideas. Like someone else mentioned, I am disappointed to learn that I could not edit a link to a lesson plan. Originally, I wanted to edit a lesson plan on the Frog and Toadbook by Arnold Lobel because the lesson had been written in 1999 and the web links were outdated. I found several up-to-date links and also suggested using a Del.icio.us account to store the new links. But alas, I could not make changes or suggestions.
I chose to add to a lesson that asked students to research events leading up to the Revolutionary War. Here is what I contributed:
Students can also choose to make a newsletter using Microsoft Publisher. They will learn "newspaper writing" as a genre in language arts class so that this is a collaboration between SS and English. They will write about the events as if they are happening right then. The students can then add their own touch to the newsletters to make them unique.
It is almost ridiculous the amount of information that you come across when doing work for this class! The snowstorm last week has had me away from a computer connection for awhile, but I hope some of you could find this new wiki helpful. It is called Wiki for Kids and is being promoted as a safe place for students and teachers to use. Check it out and make some additions if you would like.
What a find! WikEd discusses topics in the realms of curriculum, technology, and education reform. This wiki has information that would be helpful to teachers of all experience levels. I stumbled across it when I was looking for educational wikis. The article that caught my eye was on Wiki in a K-12 Classroom. Many topics we have discussed or will discuss in this class are mentioned on this site. Educators coming together to improve their instruction is a powerful tool. There are tons of links that could have you surfing forever into the depths of any topic.
I edited a lesson for a Five Senses Introduction. It was a great lesson to start with, but I added an extension to broaden the age and use of the base lesson. The extension called for the teacher to allow students to use only one of their senses to determine what the object was. This could be hard with some objects, so specific objects may need to be used. In the end, students would see how hard it is for just one sense to do all of the work, or how important each and every one of our senses is.
I thought it was really neat how I could actually edit this lesson plan for all to see. This is my first experience with a Wiki and I was apprehensive at first. However, I now see how so much more information could be shared on a site like this. Collaboration is an important part of our society these days, and social computing is a great outlet for this to happen. In the social computing article, it mentioned that most of these tools are free. This should encourage schools to take advantage of the learning opportunities available because of the technology. There is no financial excuse here!
