Secondary Mechanics/Experiences

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= Online teaching script in a Wiki =

Benefits for the teacher

 * 1) The work with the Wiki's fun.
 * 2) The lesson script is reusable.
 * 3) Once held teaching disappears is not in a drawer, but remains alive.
 * 4) The preparation of the script causes a reflection of teaching and a clarification of the contents.
 * 5) Asynchronous learning will be encouraged. For example, students provide solutions to old tasks.
 * 6) Since the students are solving write pages, it must not do everything alone, but gets support.
 * 7) The once work is potentially of international importance. This is meaningful. The effort is worthwhile.
 * 8) A Wiki is a "social software". It is open to the world and promotes teamwork, even among teachers.
 * 9) WikiEducator aims to learning in the so-called developing countries. This is the work Wiki potentially a personal development aid.
 * 10) Since working with a wiki for the students well and, promotes and facilitates the teaching process.
 * 11) It can be a Wiki author a name.
 * 12) As part of Web 2.0, the total wikis still important. Examples: 1.Wikipedia, 2 Everywhere new wiki projects. As a Wiki author is a man so at the time.
 * 13) Author in a Wiki is to be a creative process, the positive impact on the work as a teacher can ever have.
 * 14) Own thoughts in the global educational efforts of the whole mankind fed.
 * 15) WikiEducator was recently voted best educational Wiki Award. The number of participants will continue to grow.
 * 16) By working in a Wiki is potentially the professional isolation of the teacher alleviated.
 * 17) Loss of data on your own PC? No problem, the material is stored externally in the Wiki.
 * 18) Fear of vandalism by students or other malicious Wiki user is unfounded.
 * 19) Have the students once the capabilities for editing a Wiki acquired, it is always pointed back, for example, in another subject.
 * 20) Although the letter generated a constant current teaching scripts a conscience pressure to perform, but it can also be seen as a motivating. Ideal: The script prior to the lesson and then write yet. Then optimal interaction between teaching and Wiki work. And the teacher has written still fresh in the mind.
 * 21) The work in the wiki profitable better if the same classes.
 * 22) The work of a student can be in the Wiki protocol exactly.

Disadvantages for the teacher

 * 1) The creation of Wiki pages is cumbersome and requires a lot of time, but with increasing exercise easier and faster.
 * 2) The MediaWiki Wikis have not yet WYSIWYG editor. Learning the MediaWiki syntax required! (At least 1 hour), however, there is now MediaWiki Adds On for OpenOffice, the editing easier. Rich Text editors are in the works.
 * 3) So far, no compensation for the creation of Wiki pages.
 * 4) The uploading not Create material is hampered by copyright.
 * 5) To the students the basics of editing a Wiki teach is teaching time is necessary.
 * 6) For the students regularly work in the wiki is a permanent occupancy of the computer space required, for example, once a week. The lessons must be matched accordingly.
 * 7) The lesson script should always up to date. That creates a certain amount of pressure to perform.

Benefits for the students

 * 1) The students can use the tuition script at any time, for the teacher.
 * 2) The students get printouts of the script to the filing. In the expression may be into.
 * 3) The text of the script are very unterrichtsnah and understandable and always up to date.
 * 4) The script does not contain any material that is not relevant.
 * 5) The work with the school will be replaced, the book must not in the classroom are welcome.
 * 6) The notes in the classroom is not necessarily needed. (In practice, it is but for educational reasons, and is recommended by the students also practiced.)
 * 7) The solution filling in the pages motivated to work.
 * 8) Handouts to units can be set to Wiki. The teacher took the expression or the copy on film.
 * 9) The teaching material in any place with Internet access at any time.
 * 10) Through the active translation in English, the specialized vocabulary in English and the Germans practiced.
 * 11) Learning with the computer is for most students generally attractive, regardless of the educational content.
 * 12) The in teaching skills for editing a Wiki are far beyond the classroom also usable.
 * 13) To learn, in passing a Wiki is "empowerment". It is about the ability to take an active part in a free, democratic knowledge society.

Disadvantages for the students

 * 1) Students who do not like to work on the computer, are unmotivated. These are but a few, experience.
 * 2) The time for learning editing is based on the teaching time for the subject. It is known from experience to about 5 lessons.

My motivation as a trainer

 * 1) The work in the wiki gives me pleasure.
 * 2) I personally have a strong desire to "development aid" in the education field.
 * 3) It is to me about my personal contribution to a more just world: In many countries young people have insufficient educational opportunities. The Learning with Computers and the Internet opens up many new possibilities.
 * 4) Hence all the texts of the teaching in English script translated, and are therefore as Open Educational Resource (OER) to the world without restriction.
 * 5) The project is also for my own professional development of value. For example, this is my lesson anew again reflected and questioned.

I would be at any time, even later, on new Wiki colleagues happy.

--White Eagle 17:15, 5 February 2008 (CET)