I'm going to add my group's email addresses to my PBWiki page so that you can view it whenever you'd like. But I'll add it AFTER this weekend. I don't want you to see it in its bare-bones.
Going to wait until the students add just a FEW tiny things.
If you want access now, let me know. Otherwise I'll invite you on Tuesday (the next time all my classes will have met).
Thursday, January 31, 2008
FIRST DAY
So I started wikis today. I think it went VERY WELL! We had to do some other things first, things that were very important (finish up reading projects and go over the haikus my students posted on my Sharepoint). That left us with 45 minutes. Not enough time!
Yesterday I wrote out my survey questions. I added as many as I could possibly think of. I figured when this is all over I can weed out the ones that end up being irrelevent. I'll post the questions on here sometime. I've got to send myself an email from school (blogspot is banned from all DoDDS Pacific servers and for good reason! There's a massive dearth of inappropriate blogspot sites out there for HS students). The survey questions are on my Sharepoint, so I'll get to those later.
I ran out of time for my A3 class. I forgot to have them take the survey. DANGIT DANGIT DANGIT! That's going to be troublesome because when they end up taking the survey on Monday, they'll have spent the weekend getting to know what a wiki is and I fear their survey answers will be inaccurate. Ugh ugh double ugh. I'll post a notice on my home page asking A3 kids to respond to survey during seminar tomorrow.
I had them working on eNotes (Cornell notes on a word document and they just submit it to my Sharepoint drop box) while I called them up one by one to give me their email addresses. Then they logged on and set their own passwords. I purchased the upgrade to Silver for one reason: so that each student has their own password to access the wiki. Oh, and because it has more memory space and some more functions.
Their assignment for this weekend is to put their contact email on the group project template on PBWiki. The other things they have to do are: contact the other member(s) in their civilization; figure out a family name and where in their civilization's history they want the happy family to begin their story; and spend at least 30 minutes getting to know/playing with the wiki. They know they are supposed to snoop around the other civilization wiki pages, but they are not allowed to alter the other civilization pages one single bit.
I showed them how I can check the history pages and how easy it is to revert it back to the previous copy. And, because I'm dealing with 14 and 15 year olds, I felt it encumbent upon myself to add, "please do not ever let me find out you tried to vandalize another civilization's pages."
I hated that I had to include that but...I want to cover all my bases. No one will, but I'm trying to plan for everything here.
The best part? This evening I was at my desk and I got a dozen notices of students who went on and played around with their wikis. That made me so very happy to see!
Next week we will come up with a grading rubric for the wikis, and we'll come up with project goals. As I said in my TIP, I do not want to tell them "you must have so-and-so amount of links, and so-and-so many pictures, videos, etc." I want them to be as creative with this as they humanly can.
Yesterday I wrote out my survey questions. I added as many as I could possibly think of. I figured when this is all over I can weed out the ones that end up being irrelevent. I'll post the questions on here sometime. I've got to send myself an email from school (blogspot is banned from all DoDDS Pacific servers and for good reason! There's a massive dearth of inappropriate blogspot sites out there for HS students). The survey questions are on my Sharepoint, so I'll get to those later.
I ran out of time for my A3 class. I forgot to have them take the survey. DANGIT DANGIT DANGIT! That's going to be troublesome because when they end up taking the survey on Monday, they'll have spent the weekend getting to know what a wiki is and I fear their survey answers will be inaccurate. Ugh ugh double ugh. I'll post a notice on my home page asking A3 kids to respond to survey during seminar tomorrow.
I had them working on eNotes (Cornell notes on a word document and they just submit it to my Sharepoint drop box) while I called them up one by one to give me their email addresses. Then they logged on and set their own passwords. I purchased the upgrade to Silver for one reason: so that each student has their own password to access the wiki. Oh, and because it has more memory space and some more functions.
Their assignment for this weekend is to put their contact email on the group project template on PBWiki. The other things they have to do are: contact the other member(s) in their civilization; figure out a family name and where in their civilization's history they want the happy family to begin their story; and spend at least 30 minutes getting to know/playing with the wiki. They know they are supposed to snoop around the other civilization wiki pages, but they are not allowed to alter the other civilization pages one single bit.
I showed them how I can check the history pages and how easy it is to revert it back to the previous copy. And, because I'm dealing with 14 and 15 year olds, I felt it encumbent upon myself to add, "please do not ever let me find out you tried to vandalize another civilization's pages."
I hated that I had to include that but...I want to cover all my bases. No one will, but I'm trying to plan for everything here.
The best part? This evening I was at my desk and I got a dozen notices of students who went on and played around with their wikis. That made me so very happy to see!
Next week we will come up with a grading rubric for the wikis, and we'll come up with project goals. As I said in my TIP, I do not want to tell them "you must have so-and-so amount of links, and so-and-so many pictures, videos, etc." I want them to be as creative with this as they humanly can.
Monday, January 28, 2008
It's ALMOST time
The new semester starts tomorrow (Tuesday). My classes are going to the computer room on Thursday and Friday to begin working with their wikis.
I spent this weekend weighing the pros and cons of using PBWiki and Sharepoint wiki and I even made a list...a physical list. Without further ado, I'm going with PBWIKI. Hooray!
It was the really boring and crummy layout of Sharepoint that tipped the scales.
I'm going to give them an online survey to fill out this week (using, funnily enough, the Sharepoint survey system). I'll be using questions I created in my TIP proposal last summer.
Speaking of my TIP, I found it but I can't figure out how to post it on this blog. So I'll just email it to y'all. I went back over it and I'm pretty much doing every single solitary thing on the TIP.
My principal is doing his Professional Growth Plan observation on Thursday, so that'll be fun and exciting! Now off to look at my group's TIPs.
I spent this weekend weighing the pros and cons of using PBWiki and Sharepoint wiki and I even made a list...a physical list. Without further ado, I'm going with PBWIKI. Hooray!
It was the really boring and crummy layout of Sharepoint that tipped the scales.
I'm going to give them an online survey to fill out this week (using, funnily enough, the Sharepoint survey system). I'll be using questions I created in my TIP proposal last summer.
Speaking of my TIP, I found it but I can't figure out how to post it on this blog. So I'll just email it to y'all. I went back over it and I'm pretty much doing every single solitary thing on the TIP.
My principal is doing his Professional Growth Plan observation on Thursday, so that'll be fun and exciting! Now off to look at my group's TIPs.
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