Tuesday, November 4, 2008

What's next? Tackling a WIKI

The same religion class are going to have a go at making a wiki next. This task, to be done in pairs, requires the students to create a wiki on Judaism. They were easily able to create the wiki initially and have invited me to be a moderator on their sites. This means that I can access their wikis at any time, see how they are progressing and makes comments on the wiki. The wikis are done at wetpaint.com, a site which enables free wiki creation.

I have given the students access to several resources within the content management system and have structured the task in detail. Each person in the pair has been allocated their own pages to work on and I have made a calendar in the CMS, detailing when each section of the task is to be completed by. The first task was to create a page of Jewish beliefs. Many did not finish this and I told them to complete it for homework. So far, there has been no further work done by any of the teams. Out of sight, out of mind?

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