Ode to Joy! After much turmoil, I have figured out how to successfully use the www.pbwiki.com website. It was not as frustrating trying to learn this as it was other programs but it still kind of rose the old blood pressure. I placed my Excel lesson plan on the site, and commented on each of the high school members' plans. During the class discussion about the wiki's, I found it interesting how wiki's can be used in real life as more of a tool of communication than an on-line encyclopedia. I would like to eventually have a class newspaper on a wiki, containing happenings in class, good grades, and upcoming assignments, so that parents can also be involved with their childrens' education.
I have decided to use www.pbwiki.com as a form of on-line collaboration for a Cafe' Conversation activity for my class. I will have the students in groups and have them answer different problems while posting their methods and solutions on-line. I think it is a added value to place technology into a Cafe' Conversation activity, as the students can learn to collaborate about solutions to a problem in a technological way.
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I also found pbwiki a little more user friendly than Flickr. After using this program, it makes me think of the critical friends groups that we did during Janet's class in the spring. In order to do those protocols, we had to take time out of class, whereas if we used a wiki like this, we could share and critique on our own time at our own pace. Also, if we actually did this in schools, we would be able to have ongoing critical friends throughout the school year, instead of just during Gold PD days.
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