Using Wikis with younger students

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I'm a teacher of 12 year old students in a First & Middle School near Worcester in the UK.

I have been assigned the task, along with a colleague, of introducing our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or Learning Platform to our students during the next academic year which starts in a few weeks time. Our VLE has the facility to host forums, blogs and Wikis within a secure password protected environment. This should link to our VLE if you would like to see the public side: St Barnabas VLE

  • How might I introduce blogs and wikis to my students?
  • Has anyone got any ideas/suggestions/activities that I might use?

I've tried to incorporate some activities into an English unit of work based around a novel: The Bailey Game by Celia Rees. I could share my planning document if that would be helpful.

Over to you guys...

Steve

Bopthehonest (talk)‎23:03, 5 August 2009

Hello Steve,

Glad to know that you are a teacher of 12 year-old students in the First & Middle School near Worcester in the U.K. Interestingly, I am also in the city of Worcester in Massachusetts here in the U.S. www.ci.worcester.ma.us, which I believe has some historical connections with the city of Worcester in the U.K.

  • I was also involved with a middle school for a couple years and created a blog at http://www.webstermass.blogspot.com to connect the school, Webster Middle School with the town community, thus making it easier for parents and guardians to find what their students are doing in school.
  • I moved out to do more computer-related training for students and their parents in a community.
  • I did a six-week consulting for pastors at the Pentecost Leadership Training & Retreat Center at http://www.pentecostleadership.blogspot.com.
  • Right now I am involved with teaching of an African language as a second language for native English speakers at Harvard University http://www.aaas.fas.harvard.edu/african_language_program/index.html.

My goal is to graduate into using wikis in addition to blogs for educational purposes generally and the learning of African language in particular.

Prince

Kwaaku (talk)‎11:08, 6 August 2009
 
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