Thursday, February 19, 2009
Lesson Plans for Wikis
In our last class meeting we were assigned a Wiki Lesson Plan to devise. While we are just now working on our cohort wiki using all the concepts we have learned from the perevious semesters, I still find myself kind of reaching for a lesson idea that would use a wiki as the central format to display learning. I'm thinking more of a series of small group wikis, putting my students in groups of four to five and each group creating their own wiki based on a small concept. My feeling is the bigger you try & make something the 'first time around', the greater the likelihood of problems that as a teacher you will have to deal with, and the greater the liklihood that some kids will get 'lost' in the scope & size of the project. Any thoughts on this?
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I do think putting students in groups and assigning each group a topic to write about will make the process easier for the teacher to manage and be able to see what each group member has contributed to the specific topic. The topic narrows their research and writing so they stay on task.
ReplyDeleteI think you are on the right track there Carl. And as Dave says one topic helps. However, if it were an ongoing project, the ITSopedia is set up in a way that students are only taking a small bite each week (which could be done daily, every 2 or 3 days, etc...). The nice thing about the ITSopedia, is that the small bite is a new one each time. Also, if you set up a pbwiki account they email you some directions for getting it up and running. AND, they do it in small bites, giving you assignments to carry out towards an up a running wiki.
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