Well, I finally have my wiki set up for History Day. Bachman and I are using the same one, so I got all our students on and made sure it worked. They only had to write their topic and key question down to make sure everything works-- simple enough. It worked fairly well. The best part of having the students have accounts is that their name is attached, so if someone decides to write inappropriate comments, it's attached to them. Let's just say, there always has to be one to try it, and that genius could not figure out how I knew it was him that was calling people names on the wiki.
Why does there always have to be one kid to wreck something? I did have to spend 10-15 minutes going through and deleting his comments, just so noone else feels like they have the freedom to do this. So, he has joined the ranks of wiki probabtion--- any more inappropriate comments and his access will be gone, and I guess I will need to babysit him. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH--Thank goodness it's time for break. Merry Christmas :)
Friday, December 19, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Thing 6
Well, I thought I should probably do Thing 6 before the holiday season, or this month's would not get done. I did find it interesting to read the teacher's assignment on the students going in and fixing up wikipedia--what a good way to have students do research, yet also look for fallacies. I don't mind students browsing wikipedia for a topic search or just to get an idea, but many of them cannot break away from using it--like it's the know all end all source. I just attended a History Day Workshop yesterday, and they are trying to get students out of this habit too. They told us there really should not be any sources on their bibliography from wikipedia.
As for GoogleDocs, I cannot say that I have ever really used this. I have learned about them through MILI and have gone through the steps of working with one. I have even set one up, in case I get the urge. However, right now I feel that I have enough on my plate. In the future, I would like to look further into using them in the future--if I can think of a great reason to use it. I have talked to a few students about using it for History Day, since they are working with people in different hours or classes. So, we'll see if we get to try it out.
Moving onto wiki's, I will be setting one up for History Day. I am not making it mandatory, but will offer some extra points for using the wiki. So, I just got started on this process and will need to find out how it works.
As for GoogleDocs, I cannot say that I have ever really used this. I have learned about them through MILI and have gone through the steps of working with one. I have even set one up, in case I get the urge. However, right now I feel that I have enough on my plate. In the future, I would like to look further into using them in the future--if I can think of a great reason to use it. I have talked to a few students about using it for History Day, since they are working with people in different hours or classes. So, we'll see if we get to try it out.
Moving onto wiki's, I will be setting one up for History Day. I am not making it mandatory, but will offer some extra points for using the wiki. So, I just got started on this process and will need to find out how it works.
Friday, December 5, 2008
History Day-- narrowing down topics
Next week, we start working on helping students find History Day topics. Since we teach World History, students are required to choose a global individual (Non-American) who made an impact and is a legacy. I have looked at the research process materials, and I believe that there are a few sheets I can utilize to help the students who are struggling with narrowing down a topic or topics. Has anyone used any specific one and found success?
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