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Read, Write, Think & Collaborate
What might a collaborative reading and writing poetry lesson using Web 2.0 tools look like? You will wiki while you work through a middle, high school humanities lesson. See how Google collaboration tools are integrated into a sample classroom lesson on a wiki. Featured in this workshop series will be the use of Wikis, Blogs, Google Tools for Educators, and Podcasting.
The purpose of this workshop is to:
- gain technology skills to use a wiki
- learn how utilizing collaborative web based writing and collaboration tools meets a number of English language arts standards for reading, writing, listening, and speaking
- examine an example poetry lesson, Race In Me, that integrates several technology resources that culminates in the creation of a poetry podcast. Click here to view the entire poetry lesson for students.
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Teachers |
Pre-Workshop Activity
Materials
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Activity - Background Ideas and Classroom Uses of Wikis
- Welcome and overview
- Speed Dating – group connecting activity
- View this presentation. (Link to slide presentation)
This presentation is background information about classroom
uses of wikis
Materials
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Link to slide presentation |
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Activity - Race In Me Poetry Activity
- Hands-on introduction to the Race In Me Poetry Wiki
- Formulate teams - working as students will, complete
the following:
- Locate the wiki
- Learn to navigate
- Read/preview the task together
- Log in with a password to the team page put your
name(s), school, position.
- Save and view a couple of pages
- Debrief with the whole group the power of this experience
of digital collaboration online as a teacher and as
a student. Ease of use? Set up? etc
- Teams complete the first
activity and post their
work to the team page.
Materials
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Activity - Promoting Deep Thinking and Big Ideas
- Using your teacher
persona, review activity
2 on the wiki called Compare Census Data and
Other Ideas with the lense as digital
educator. Use these questions to focus your conversation
with your partner:
- How does this activity promote deep thinking?
- What are the advantages of using digital tools
such as a wiki
for this activity? for the teacher and for the
students?
- How might this kind of activity be a more motivating
way to learn for students?
- How does using this sort of digital collaboration
tool (wiki) make
it easier for teachers
to track the thinking,
progress, and learning
of students?
- What happens with the thinking of everyone
in class when their work
is visible to others?
- How does this make students accountable for
doing their own work
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Activity - Make a Wiki
- Tour Make
Your Wiki on pb wiki
- Specially for librarians: The
Wiki Way: Building Better Collaborative Library Projects
Materials
Activity - Final Reflections
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Learn more about wikis
Get Help From PBWiki
Atomic Learning - Free
tutorials for PB Wiki
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