… even if it’s making a slow start!

I decided that rather than simply look at pictures of places in our community and list them, we could use another Web 2.0 tool, a wiki, as a tool for presenting information the children gathered on different places in our community for our Living in Communities unit.

The result is the start of our 4B Wiki.  Pairs of students are preparing a short information report or description on a place of their choosing.  We’ll also gather photographs or weblinks to give a little more to the text.

In preparing the report, students had to find answers to, and address four questions:

  • What is the place?
  • Where is the place?
  • How has the place changed over time?
  • How does the place help people?

Our Aquilina Reserve team has done a pretty good job for a first go.  Now we just need to get the rest of the class up and going.

My only problem now is that we’re running out of time this term!  We still haven’t word processed the expositions or created the databases that are assessment tasks for our Term 1 English and HSIE units.  Listen to me - word processing and databases - how 20th Century?!  Maybe it’s time to revise our “technology integrated” assessment tasks.

I wonder if I can get away with having the “book review” task delivered/presented as a post on their Reading Group blog?  Or will I stir things up across the grade?  Will they even know we’re doing the same task in a different form?  We might just give it a go…