Saturday, 21 July 2012

Wiki Capabilities PMI

Wikispaces is another great way for students to share information and collaborate online. Wikispaces offers some tools that support and faciliate student learning and development.

Plus:

  • Ability to upload pictures and videos to share students work
  • An online record of what has happened through out the day for students who may be away
  • Sharing YouTube clips with students to reinforce keep concepts
  • Create polls for student surveys - ability to gain teacher feedback or use in lesson i.e. Maths graphs
  • Upload Google maps for students interaction or for giving event directions to parents
  • Allows online collaboration
  • Students can create records of their group work
  • Teacher can put in place scaffolding or add to students work to drive them in the right direction
  • Teachers can add comments for student feedback and review if the students have taken that feedback on board or not 
  • Wikispaces can be constantly added to for an indefinate period of time
  • Students have the ability to view other students ideas and ask questions to help their own learning

Minus:

  • Technology failures with an online environment
  • Students self-conscious of sharing their work
  • Students being highly critical of other students work
  • Members of group tasks not evenly contributing
  • Inappropriate material or comments that may be added to wikispace

Interesting:

  • Search/work history can be retrieved for teachers to monitor individual student input
  • If work is accidently deleted it can be retrieved from using the history tool
Here are some examples of wikispaces-

A collaborative task where three other students and myself constructed a wikispace for an assessment task.
Key Features to look out for:
  • The professional set-up and easy navigation of the wikispace
  • The sharing of 'Awesome Resources'
  • The communication page
http://numeracyinactionat1.wikispaces.com


A fiddling Wikispace just to demonstrate the use of some Widgets.

http://averyinterestingwiki.wikispaces.com/




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