This year I have explored the use of a Wiki in the classroom with my sixth graders. Along the way we have also looked at other Web 2.0 tools, some with great success and others we decided just did not work for us.Next year I will continue to build on what we have learned this year in using the Wiki in class. Each student will have their own page, possibly making it public so family can share the learning with us.
Please visit the Wiki at:
"A Classroom Wiki"
Goals, ISTE NETS*T:
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
| a. | promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. |
| c. | promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. |
| d. | model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments. |
| a. | design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. |
| b. | develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress. |
| c. | customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources. |
Activities:
- Maintain a class Wiki that students can use to collaborate and communicate about subjects they learn throughout the year.
- Make discussions available for students to use to answer questions and engage in dialogue with their classmates and other members of the Wiki.
- Create team pages for students to develop in Science and Social Studies.
- Have time for students to learn the Wiki, how to use the Wiki, edit pages, upload pictures and files, wait their turn to edit.
Evaluation: (screen shots of rubrics)
- Rubrics from Read•Write•Think: Wiki & group participation
- Online self-assessment
- Written self-assessments
