So Dave Fegemann told me about the pisci wiki when I first started talking to him. He gave me the idea of taking my normal lab reports and making them wiki-labs. I’ve used them once so far, and they are awesome. There have been some small hiccups, but not only does it allow me to avoid paper grading, but it will allow the students to submit peer reviews where they enter into a discussion on the quality of the lab.
The other idea I had was to have students build a set of wiki pages as a study guide for a course. I think I am going to use this in my Calculus class as a summative assignment. All in all I’ve been pretty happy with these implementations of wikis (I wish there was a better name), and I’m excited to see what I can do with them in the future.
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Tami
// Oct 15, 2008 at 7:09 am
Martin,
I had the pleasure of seeing a presentation by Darren Kuropatwa at a conference in Boston this summer. He is a math teacher from Canada who uses technology in so many ways in his classroom. I’m including a link to his blog and to one of his class’s student-generated study wikis. You may be able to get some ideas from him.
http://adifference.blogspot.com/
http://apcalc06.pbwiki.com/
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Kathryn Bailey
// Oct 31, 2008 at 5:20 am
Martin: I miss being in the science classroom especially with I think about the new opportunities offered using Web 2.0 tools. The idea of collaborative data for projects, course study and experiments that directly translates into greater problem solving and critical thinking is exactly the type of science we want to promote. What a great way to get kids interested. Please send me links as wikis are created.
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