I really like the idea of sharing curriculum ideas and a wiki is a wonderful way to do it. I would like to see us start a best practices wiki at our school (encouraging others in our district as well as other interested people to participate). We have a wealth of knowledge among us, but so often do not share it - there's never enough time, we don
't think anyone is interested, what we're doing seems so obvious, we have an idea but it needs to be tweaked, etc. Wikis allow us to work at our convenience from anywhere so it invites participation at a different level than face-to-face interaction (which is still important - we don't have to exclude whatever works for people).
I added two ideas to the Photos and Images to California 2.0 Curriculum Connections:
Idea #12: Create a CD cover. When collaborating with your music teacher, go to Foxy Tunes Planet http://www.foxytunes.com/planet and select the criteria and widgets that you want students to use when researching a musician. Students can read a biography, listen to music, watch a video, look at pictures, read song lyrics, etc. Using information from this site, have students create a CD cover using Flickr Toys http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/ adding a picture and text.
Idea #13: Create the front page of a newspaper. Using the newspaper generator at http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp, have each student cr
eate their own front page. This would be a great activity for Back to School night. Each student could write a brief article on the most important thing they have learned so far. This would also be a good activity to use to have students summarize content covered.
't think anyone is interested, what we're doing seems so obvious, we have an idea but it needs to be tweaked, etc. Wikis allow us to work at our convenience from anywhere so it invites participation at a different level than face-to-face interaction (which is still important - we don't have to exclude whatever works for people).I added two ideas to the Photos and Images to California 2.0 Curriculum Connections:
Idea #12: Create a CD cover. When collaborating with your music teacher, go to Foxy Tunes Planet http://www.foxytunes.com/planet and select the criteria and widgets that you want students to use when researching a musician. Students can read a biography, listen to music, watch a video, look at pictures, read song lyrics, etc. Using information from this site, have students create a CD cover using Flickr Toys http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/ adding a picture and text.
Idea #13: Create the front page of a newspaper. Using the newspaper generator at http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp, have each student cr
eate their own front page. This would be a great activity for Back to School night. Each student could write a brief article on the most important thing they have learned so far. This would also be a good activity to use to have students summarize content covered.
3 comments:
Thank you for ideas 12 and 13. Easy, do-able, and sound interesting for the students!
Excellent ideas that you shared. You have a flair for all this! Why don't you create the wiki you'd like for your own school -- go to each department or a teacher in each subject area and show the wiki and how to add to it. Then, introduce it more widely at the beginning of school as a collaborative project.
Best wishes.
- JackieS
CSLA 2.0 Team project manager
I am new to reading blogs (or even writing on them), so I am enjoying learning all about your new learning. As a teacher educator I feel I must mess around with many of these new technologies so that I can teach my students to use them with their middle and high school students. thanks for the info. I wil check out your blog again/
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