Stage 3 of the Plan: MONITOR
One of my goals was to communicate with my students and parents by creating a website or re-creating my wikispace. I have looked at wix.com as suggested by Lyndsay Paisley. I just started to create a website that will enable my students to look for important class information. I would like to link the wikispace if possible so that students will have the resources for self-directed learning or assistance. The wix also enables a contact page where parents could send me a message. Again I am in the inital phase of creating this website and plan to reference Lyndsay's website for ideas and use the wix tutorials. I will also look at my wikispace and change a few things. I would like my students to be able to find altenate assignments when they miss class and access their grades.
The other goal I had set for myself was to model and teach ethical use of resources. I have several flipcharts that I utilized Discovery Education videos. I still have to cite the resources on my "pages". Also, I would like to use the lessons for the QUEST Model of inquiry referenced in "Reading the Web". These lessons would involve analyzing URLs, evaluating websites, and citing resources.
I have learned that I need to have a plan.....what do I want my students to learn and what will be the best way to get there. The latter thought...is there technology to support me to help my students get there in another way.
The question is always there....how do we find the time to get everything done? It almost seems overwhelming to think of all my prior "notes" that I need to go through to make sure references are cited...but can be done as I am ready to re-use this flipcharts.
The wix website is going to take time to create since I do not know much about wix. So, I question if I will be able to create the website I have pictured in my mind?
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Terri,
ReplyDeleteI was looking for a good wiki space. Thanks for Wix.com. I might use that site.
Also, I teach ethical use. You can find out from your administrators if there is a recommended usage poicy for your building first of all. Secondly, I use Brainpop.com videos to prompt discussion, and create assignments based on a few videos they have there. The on on “Nettiquette” covers allot of ground for us. Modeling ethical use is the easy part. That is all about caring to teach the best way you know how, so you’ve got that covered.
Ethical use of specific resources is not too difficult to teach either. Teaching students to type a hyperlink into MS Word is fun, and they’ll have fun doing it. If they can do that, then they can site their sources from the internet. After all, they’re not doing higher level studies yet.
-John P.
John,
ReplyDeletewix.com is not a wiki, but a website creator. You can have widgets and multiple pages, links and set up a comment box, but it does not handle discussion posts which wikis can. I am trying this as a means for communication with parents, hoping I may get more responses or questions about students.
While I feel it is important to teach ethical use, I do not want to spend a lot of time on this. Just enough for the students to learn validity in websites, other search engines, and properly citing references.