I have used Wikispaces before, so I wasn't worried about the technical piece of this week's assignment to create a curriculum page. But having never created this type of page before, I wasn't sure where to start. I looked at the links that were provided and came up with an outline of what I wanted to include about the Digital Storytelling Book Talk project. This included the basic instructions of the project, some links to websites that would help my students if they got stuck and what I planned to do with the finished projects. Even though I felt I was just starting with the basics, it still took me a good amount of time to create the home page and the three information pages that link back to the home page. As I worked on my wiki, I started making a list of what kinds of things I would add to this curriculum page. I realized that this would be a great tool to use for my Student Book Club. I would use it to have a Main Page that listed the books we are reading and have sub pages dedicated to each book. On these sub-pages, we could provide information about the author, a short summary of the book, and additional information the club would want potential readers to know. From there, I could create a link to our Book Club wiki from the Media Center's website for everyone to access. I am looking forward to continuing to improve my wiki and find other ways to use it in the Media Center.
If you would like to see how I am doing so far, please check out my wiki on creating Book Talks.
Thanks.
PageT
While it would take a lot of time, it would be very neat to have that book club wiki online. The students would love having a new way to look up information on a book, and may even be more likely to look up information if you set it up in a format like a wiki. It would be easy for the students' to reference. That sounds like a great idea.
ReplyDeleteI also found that while the project wasn't really hard, it took me longer than I thought to complete my project as well. Just adding pictures, and changing colors really makes the presentation nice, but it takes that extra time.
And it looks like you have a nice start to your page! It was easy for me to follow, and would take the students where they need to be to find information. Good job
Megan H
I like your approach with literature. I think the Wiki and lots of other online forums are great places for students to asynchonously discuss and review literature. I have been working on these ideas with the alpha teacher at my school. One of her complaints is that elementary students who aren't good typists get frustrated easily because their ideas are flowing faster than their fingers can type their thoughts. And so in that regard the technology can be frustrating to a student.
ReplyDeleteI have looked at a lot of elementary curriculum pages within this class and that is one of the cautions that I have about them for those earlier grade levels. There is a lot of potential but the students have to be prepared to use it.