I'm taking an online class about using social media in the classroom. The final project entails creating a lesson plan that incorporates social media (I have chosen wiki).
I am a complete novice regarding social media and am a bit overwhelmed. I don't know where to begin. I know this is vague. But, I need some direction.
It doesn't have to be brilliant or complex…the simpler - the better.
I teach Biology, Environmental science, and Astronomy in high school.
Thanks.
have a read: http://community.wikidot.com/howto:first-site
and all the gettiong help stuff,
and all the how tos: http://community.wikidot.com/howto:_start
select a simple layout with nav-top: and nav_side and let it go.
Read the handbook : http://handbook.wikidot.com/
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
Sie können fragen und mitwirken in der deutschsprachigen » User-Gemeinschaft für WikidotNutzer oder
im deutschen » Wikidot Handbuch ?
Thanks. I will watch those tomorrow. I teach Biology, Environmental Science, and Astronomy. Do you have any ideas off the top of your head about how I could incorporate wiki into a lesson plan ?
I remember somewhere reading about someone who used wiki as some sort science terminology tool (prefixes, suffixes, root words) and kids could contribute to the page over time. Does that seem doable ? How would I do it ?
Thanks.
Easy version
Put all of your teaching material in a wiki, and your scheme is to ask student to grab the files for their lessons from it. IOW, the wiki acts as your course material repository. I'd guess that this won't be good for your grades.
Hard version
You might be interested in how to use wiki-writing contribution as a way to grade students. Here's a rather short version:
Students were divided into 44 groups with exactly 5 members each and with their own designated role: 2 collectors, 1 organizer, 1 editor, 1 verifier.
Learning was achieved by engaging students into 4 processes: information seeking and retrieval, argumentation development and refinement to support their thesis, cooperation among members, and their involvement with the wiki-editing process. With these in mind, students were given a short instruction on how to use the wiki through an exemplary wiki created by the researchers. This exemplary wiki also contains further instructions of student’s assignments through the semester. The main assignment is for the students to create their own wiki website. The main topic of the wiki is giving information about Web 2.0 and its applications.
At the end of the semester, the wiki must be presented during a laboratory session and graded by the researchers on a 1 to 100 scale. The score was multiplied by the number of group members and the sum is given to the group. The group members, then, distribute the points fairly according to each member’s contribution.
Wikidot, like other wikis, kept a page history for you to measure each student's contribution. For an extra legitimate intrument, use both pre and postest to measure student's gain.
Reference
Altanopoulou, P., Katsanos, C., & Tselios, N. (2014). Effectiveness of Wiki-Based Learning in Higher Education. (C. Karagiannidis, I. Karasavvidis, & P. Politis, Eds.) Research on e-Learning and ICT in Education, 137-148.
Similar work:
Effectiveness of a Framed Wiki-Based Learning Activity in the Context of HCI Education