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Anne-Marie Tarter, Ripon Grammar School
I was galvanized into finding out more about how to use Web 2.0 after hearing Phil Bradley at SLA last summer. There are several of the developments that we can't use in schools due to the banning of certain kinds of sites (blogging, social network sites like Facebook and My Space, podcasts) but having said that there is still quite a bit of scope for what we can do. This year I am planning to introduce students to igoogle, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, creating their own search engines, wikis, and podcasting.
Last week I started a wiki for the Critical Thinking class and it is fantastic! It made the lesson's homework so much more dynamic. As students submitted their work, I was able to comment directly which then all the students could read. Their work in turn began to comment on the contributions of others...all much more in depth and thoughtful than either a classroom discussion or an individually written answer could have been. I am paying for a commercial wiki which gives me administrator rites and controls which make managing the wiki safe and very easy. The students' response has been great. I assigned the homework on the Thursday to 20 students and by Saturday 10 had already joined in and by Monday I had 15 replies.
I was galvanized into finding out more about how to use Web 2.0 after hearing Phil Bradley at SLA last summer. There are several of the developments that we can't use in schools due to the banning of certain kinds of sites (blogging, social network sites like Facebook and My Space, podcasts) but having said that there is still quite a bit of scope for what we can do. This year I am planning to introduce students to igoogle, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, creating their own search engines, wikis, and podcasting.
Last week I started a wiki for the Critical Thinking class and it is fantastic! It made the lesson's homework so much more dynamic. As students submitted their work, I was able to comment directly which then all the students could read. Their work in turn began to comment on the contributions of others...all much more in depth and thoughtful than either a classroom discussion or an individually written answer could have been. I am paying for a commercial wiki which gives me administrator rites and controls which make managing the wiki safe and very easy. The students' response has been great. I assigned the homework on the Thursday to 20 students and by Saturday 10 had already joined in and by Monday I had 15 replies.
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I have used forums on our Virtual Learning Environment and they can be a wonderful way of geting student;s to participate and discuss. Is there and advantage in using a wiki over a forum?
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