The
sixth short project consists of the creation of a wiki. Photocopies concerning Wikis are at the UCR copy center in the course folder. Read the copies before beginning this project. These copies should also be used to support your next forum.
Sixth Project Instructions:
Create your own wiki using http://www.wikispaces.com. This is a free platform in which you may obtain a free upgrade for using it for educational purposes only.
This mini project should have the following aspects:
- Create your own wiki using http://www.wikispaces.com, and send wiki invites to your fellow classmates as well as myself (1%)
- Set up your wiki for the grade level and topic(s) already established from your VoiceThread mini-project (1%)
- Use grammatically correct English throughout (1%)
- Add 1 widget, such as a course calendar with events inserted in the calendar (1%)
- Add at least 2 pictures and/or logo which are appropriate for your grade level and topic (1%)
- Create at least 4 links within the wiki (1%)
- Create 1 original collaborative project as a base for students to work and comment on which is appropriate for the grade level and topic(s) (1%)
- Add at least one YouTube video widget which will be used to help support or extend the collaborative work students will be making on within your wiki. The video should coincide with the level of your chosen group/grade and topic(s) already established within the previous mini projects (1%)
- Add to the lesson plan in which the Reading and Writing sections will be completed in relation to your Wiki project and blended learning. (2%) The activities should be appropriate for the grade level, topic as well as the skill which needs to be developed.
It
is important to review the videos first, and it is extremely helpful to
use the HELP visual instructions found within the Wiki platform when creating your wiki. If you have
any problems or need to be shown hands-on how to do any element, please
feel free to see me during my office hours on Friday, November 7th from 9-11:40 am, office
11.
The following is a sample wiki which is used in American (US) Literature: http://tamatha-rabb-educational-wiki.wikispaces.com/
Angie and Daniela:
ReplyDeleteLink for the wiki: http://foodfortenthgrade.wikispaces.com/Reading
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Ricardo Gamboa, Pablo Ramírez and Karen Zamora's Wiki page: http://frecuencyadverbs7.wikispaces.com/
ReplyDeleteThis is our wiki project https://teachingclothingnewproject2014.wikispaces.com/ and the join code: 47TFKHR.
ReplyDeleteCesar Alonso Arce Vega, Greivin Lopez Martinez, Paulo Josue Rojas Piedra & Yorleni Vasquez Lopez.
This link will lead you to Fabiola Obando Meneses, Luis Pablo C, and Vivian Garita Muñoz´ wiki project:
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This is the link for our wiki http://ourdemocratictradition.wikispaces.com/ and access with this code we created JNK9QCH
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Wikis are a very useful tool in the sense that you can manage better the work that your students are doing, how many of them are working in the indicated way and how many are not. Also, wikis can change the perspective that students have when they have to develop their writing skill, for example when they have to produce some ideas when writing an essay, a short paragraph or even a sentence. I think this is the main purpose of wikispaces; students can write and also have immediate feedback from the teacher who is the one aware of the student´s work. Moreover, in a wiki site, we as teachers can post some links that students can visit in order to enhance their abilities and also we can upload some material for them to work on. I would use wikispaces in order to make students write their own ideas according to the topic we are working on in classes and I would create some projects as extra class work in order to make sure that they are improving their production and knowledge. In the following link you can find in alphabetical order some educational wikispaces that can help you with the different topics we have to cover during class time: http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis
ReplyDeleteWikis are very popular nowadays and are sites in which people can share their ideas. This is a tool that we can definitely implement in our classes. Students are very familiar with wikis. Students can create a collaborative construction to develop one project. They can also develop several strategies such as teamwork, cooperation, among others. We can divide the class and divide tasks in order to create a final project in which everybody participated. We have to make our students see that we all have different perspectives and ways of thinking and that it is important to be tolerant. We can also show that together we can create valuable works not only in a academic context but in several situations.
ReplyDeleteThis link https://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/Wikis+in+Education presents several web pages that examine the use of wikis in education and gives options that we can follow to create our own wiki. This website states that we can implement several activities such as having our students use a wiki to publish information about a topic that they are investigating, creating digital portfolios for students and teachers and one of the most important creating collaboration opportunities between classes across the school and across the world.
Wikis are a great interesting tool that can make the classes more interactive. Personally i have used it in some courses to create essays with other partners and it has been great. This tool allows us to create and edit texts in groups. Showing who has worked or spent more time to the text. As a future teacher i can see myself using this kind of tools in order to give my students group assignments in which they have to write something, because it gives me the information i need in order to grade them either individually or in groups. The following video is an example of how we can implement Wikis in the classrooms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pR5yogCmkA
ReplyDeleteWikis are interesting tools now a day, they focus on the writing skills but also teachers can use reading activities and other activities to prepare students to the writing process. This tool is an innovative way in which students work as a team to build writing projects such as analysis and essays. This collaborative project allows students interact with others, share ideas, and edit what others have written. So, it helps students to learn from each other. Also, it helps teacher to know the work of each student in the project in order to grade them according to their inputs. This is a useful tool that teacher can implement to make more interactive the learning process and to develop the creativity and cooperation in the students.http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/07/teachers-guide-on-use-of-wikis-in.html
ReplyDeleteI firmly believe that Wikis are a great tool for teachers because of its advantages. I have used this tool as a student and it is interesting and fun. Besides, teacher can know who works in the project or the activities which is very nice since you make sure that everyone is working. I will use this tool in my class to motivate students to use technology as a learning way. Sometimes, students can be afraid to use this kind of educational tools but I think it is our must, as teacher, to motivate students to try it. For this, the following link provides some suggestions to improve student´s acceptance and contribution to a class group project wiki. http://edtechtoday.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/10-best-practices-for-using-wikis-in-education/
ReplyDeleteI strongly believe that using wikis and similar websites in our classes is the perfect way to extend the learning-teaching process to a new level, ignoring the limits of the students only being able to learn in the class, but now being able to continue the learning process in their houses or even in portable devices such as tables and cellphones. Wiki facilitates the process of following indications of a project as well as the evaluation that comes later. Thanks to wiki, students can create their projects faster and easier than the conventional ways.
ReplyDeleteTo reinforce what I just stated, here some links:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131512000930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-8OOrBi0o
Forum5: Yorleni Vásquez López: As technology progresses, education and teachers have to change and improve with it to introduce students into this dynamic world. Wiki spaces is a free collection of interlinked webpages platform that can be used for multiple purposes, for example, for us as educators, wiki has become a very interesting and useful tool to teach and inspire students. Wiki is very easy to use and is very well organized so every person that access to it can easily understand it. It also allows to upload Word, PDF o any other document for students to download and work collaboratively; moreover, what makes Wiki so useful for teachers is that we can keep track of what are editing our students, so when they work as a group on the same project, we can check who is working the most and who is contributing the less. We as teachers can take advantage of wiki creating projects for students to work in groups to do researches, write essays or paragraphs or to do homework assignments or just to expand their knowledge about a given topic; as we did with our wiki https://teachingclothingnewproject2014.wikispaces.com/ to teach Clothing and Accessories. Since wiki is an online platform, geographical borders are deleted and students or even teachers from all the world can actively collaborate and work on the same project sharing ideas and knowledge. Finally teachers can also use wikis for professional development and to connect with other educators from other places to discuss, share and learn from each other. The following link http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/07/teachers-guide-on-use-of-wikis-in.html lists some tips teachers need know in order to start working with Wiki and it also explains how students and teachers can improve the use of Wikis in the classroom, it also has some tutorials of how to use wiki platforms and many examples of Educational Wikis.
ReplyDeleteAfter I had finally gone trough the wiki I pictured myself asking my students to look for their six extraclass works (two per trimester) on the wiki. It is one of the wide variety of variations and uses the wiki would have. It is very useful for teachers, mostly taking into account that videos can be uploaded as well as pictures, etc...
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki would lead people who already know about the existence of wiki as the ones who did know about it to a wide explanation about wiki.
This link leads you to our wiki project already corrected... https://wikispaces.com/join/R3DK344
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ReplyDeleteThe Wiki educational platform provides an easy and productive way to allow students to learn by collaborating with their knowledge. This is really important to reinforce the values of team work in a world that constantly demands competitiveness between each other. It also provides the teacher to interact with students in the role of facilitator leaving space for students to correct themselves and request help if needed. In my future work as teacher I would like to implement the wiki to ask students to design in which way they want to learn the topics we have to cover in our class. In this way I can guide them in what we have to do but they can suggest how they want to approach to this by using the wiki.
The following URL has more information in regards to the advantages of a wiki in education. http://ctlt.ubc.ca/learning-technologies/wiki/
The wiki is a web site where students can have a collaborative learning. Students are enhanced to achieve different tasks where they have to give ideas and complete the exercises as a group. At the same time, it is important that they can give and receive useful feedback to foster their learning. This project can be implemented with peer group activities where students have to share ideas, provide feedback and interact among them. Also, it lets students to present better projects since all of them can work in the same page, giving their personal effort to achieve each task. The following link gives a clearer idea about the importance of wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/content/classroom/about
ReplyDeleteA wiki is a great tool that teachers can implement to support the topics they need to cover during their classes. Wikis basically consist of a mean in which students can accomplish several assignments, for example: they can write essays or paragraphs, thus the teacher is able to know exactly what the student has contributed to the task assigned. In this way, the teacher grades the task according to what the student has done, so the student does not receive other’s people credit, he/she obtains what deserves based on the work completed. In my case I will use Wikis specifically when students’ writing needs to be assessed. You can access to the following link http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/What_is_a_wiki/Advantages_and_disadvantages in order to know some advantages and disadvantages that wikis have, therefore your understanding will be enhanced.
ReplyDeleteA wiki is a technological tool that has many advantages for teachers and students, in which learning English is not boring or it is in the traditional way, in which students have a collaborative experience by sharing knowledge. As well, as teachers we are in charge of the topic an d how the students will expand their language abilities, for that reason a make use of a wiki may contribute to improve the students proficiency. Moreover, it encourages students to use online tools to complement the topic and also, to solve tasks by using the four English skills.
ReplyDeleteThis video shows information about wikispaces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJjT--hbbhc