An online workshop by Claire Amos
The aim of today's workshop is to simply introduce you to a few ways that you could use a class wiki and/or blogs to both support and extend your class.
Feel free to move through the workshop at your own pace! Don't rush, you can always come back to this online workshop later. Why not save it to your favourites now!
1) Check out the outine for my e-fellowship project here.
2) Check out my reflective blog that I completed throughout the project here.
3) Check out the student blogs for 11 English and 11 English Advanced
4) Check out my Year 13 English wiki. This is an example of how I use a wiki with a senior class. My suggestion is that you set a few basic webquests that they do on the computers at school, this will get them using it much more quickly and effectively than if you just tell them the email address.
5) Click here to see how an example of a very basic Richard III webquest and the findings that my students posted in 2007, and a way you could get students to process online documents here.
6) Check out how you get students to complete an independent novel study - this is still a work in progress, so not all studyguides have been uploaded.
7) Check out some wikis from other curriculum areas:
8) Create your own! Click here to go to pbworks. Pbworks provide free wikis which also offer some great templates specifically for the classroom.
9) Add a student Wiki etiquette page, simply click Wiki Etiquette and copy and paste the info onto your wiki!
10) Direct your students to this page if you would like them to create their own wiki
11) Check out some more great teacher wiki resources and links by clicking here.
Want to find out more?
Check out Fiona Grant's ICT in English blog by clicking here.
or check out what the other efellows have been doing here.