After writing the entry below, I went to try and sort some links between the pages of the wiki. To my surprise, one of the pages had changed drastically, so I had a closer look.
No fewer than four separate pupils / pairs had logged in and altered their work on Saturday. Another change was made on [...]
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Never say “Never”
Posted in ICT, learning and teaching, web 2.0, tagged Firefox, wikis on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Never Going Back
Posted in ICT, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, web 2.0 on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Never Going Back is the name the 2nd year class gave to their wiki. They had five periods to create it and some of them have done exceptionally well.
But, throughout their work, there was another problem. It was refusing to save their work. I had taken advice (thanks, ) and encouraged them to write directly onto the wikipage. [...]
A day in the worklife: period 5: slavery again
Posted in information literacy, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, web 2.0, tagged copyright, laziness, patience, research, slavery, storytelling, wikis on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The wiki continues. Oh dear.
I have no doubt that one day this will work out, but not yet. There’s still too much to learn on both sides. From a class of 28, I have maybe four or five groups who have started to create their pages, after three hours work. I’ve been constantly firefighting, catching [...]
Lessons from a novice wikite, part 2
Posted in information literacy, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, resources, web 2.0, tagged slavery, wikis on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the slave trade investigation is finished as far as possible. The pupils have to move on to their next rotation, so yesterday we tried to make sure everybody created at least something. The four pages that did get created for the Door of No Return are pretty good, while other pupils used SCRAN to create posters, and [...]
Herring at Dunfermline
Posted in CPD, discoveries, enthusiasm, happiness, learning and teaching, librarians, reading, thinking, web 2.0, tagged Dunfermline Abbey, James Herring on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Excellent training with James Herring today. Fun on two counts: firstly, I know about and am using lots of what he was talking about. Therefore I felt quietly smug (on the inside) but got to help lots of folks who haven’t delved yet. Can’t help helping – it’s like breathing. More importantly, James provided a lot [...]
Lessons from a novice wikite
Posted in enthusiasm, information literacy, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, resources, web 2.0, tagged Door of No Return, Neil Winton, slavery, wiki on November 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m trying to set up my first wiki project, with the willing collaboration of Social Subjects. The topic is slavery and I was inspired by Neil Winton’s The Caves of Mull to create a sort of guide through a plantation. I wanted the pupils to come up with the wiki name, and they voted for the creepy and [...]
Blogs and bans
Posted in blogs, learning and teaching, web 2.0, tagged bans and blocks, Ewan Mcintosh, filtering, online safety, Sharon Markless on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ewan’s seminars are a call to blog! A message to education to find ways of using social networking technology, not ban it. At a later seminar with Sharon Markless she’s surprised to find the number of schools that block Bebo and the like. An Education Advisor, who has been on the end of several such comments all day by [...]
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