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How can WikiEducator support education in Barbados?

• Platform for resources for teachers in all subject areas
• Platform for professional development
• Sharing lessons
• Providing support for new teachers entering the profession
• Sharing best practice among local schools

Advantages

• WikiMaster certification is a valuable feature of WikiEducator
• Ability to correct/edit text in real time
• Improvement of content is critical - ability to author and change enhances sense of ownership
• Wikeducator material can be as a catalyst for ideas
• Caters for different perspectives -- i.e. the ability to adapt and modify

What should/need to do?

• Need to start with advocacy and sensitisation. What are the needs in the classroom? Can wiki's address needs.
• Need to have workshops (train the trainer approach) -- support and promote peer teaching in local schools
• Encourage each school to develop at least one set of materials on WikiEducator.
• Materials MUST be local -- Barbadian
• Incentives for developing content?
• Involve young teachers in the process
• Need support and involvement from the Ministry of Education
• The approach needs to be bottom-up rather than top down, eg involvement of subject coordinators at the ground level in getting teachers involved is critical.
• Encourage teachers to visit the site.
• Content must reflect best practice

Ideas for building capacity in using wiki's for education

• By using wikis -- we can promote the use of technology in the classroom.
• Benefits of online capability might encourage and promote capacity development