ejourney with technokids

Coming up

with Kim Cofino

flatclassrooms project  wiki and the ning with year 9/10

Susie Corbett’s unit of work on Australia

My kids need your kids

Possible middle school projects

Flat classroom projects
ning site
wiki site

Canada yr 7 and 8 students with blogging

Global education ning and spreadsheet with projects – a.  years 9 and 10 blogging prompts and b.  grade 6/7

Jan 2009

Student flatclassrooms conference

Feb -April

Years 6-7

http://ms1001tales.wikispaces.com

Elementary video collaboration

Video sharing ning and sites

Moving on – grade 6 views on leaving primary school What are we nervous about?

Years 4-5

http://es1001tales.wikispaces.com

the comment challenge on blogs

Thank Steve. Your students have made an excellent start! I enjoyed reading their comments.

Flatclassrooms ning

http://ning.flatclassroomproject.com/

Sites for 2008

http://wiki.flatclassroomproject.com

http://bookmark.flatclassroomproject.com

http://help.flatclassroomproject.com

http://conference.flatclassroomproject.com

Past projects

http://archive.flatclassroomproject.com

For year 9/10 girls

http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com

Flatclassroom ning

We went through a seminar on ADHD and I learned how sometimes students with this disability have trouble breaking things down into specific tasks, specifically on large projects.

So, I typed up a checklist for my students.  As I told them, this is NOT a “how to” — they need to go to the help wiki – http://help.flatclassroomproject.com for instructions on how to do things.  I’m sending you a copy so you can edit it — you may not do all of these items and want to customize it for your class.

I also handed out the rubric for the wiki and a printout of the topics page.  I had them write their name on the checklist and their group number.  I had them highlight their topic w/ the highlighter (Video A, B, or C and the wiki number.)

Then, I took them to the Teams page and pointed out that they will be editing the Main wiki and that wikis a, b, c, are only for the videos. – http://flatclassroomproject2008.wikispaces.com/Teams and I took them to their main page.

Now, so we don’t “lose” the instructions and so it will be easier for the other students, I had my students modify the wiki and then link to the original wiki WITH the instructions – so now, at the top of every wiki page is a sentence in red that says that it links to the original wiki instructions — this is where they can see their instructions.  Ask them not to delete this for now – it will serve as a link to the remaining instructions.

Each main wiki will have approximately 30 students, so they’ll have to make sure they all make small edits.

Finally – I’ve asked the students to go in and leave a discussion on the main wiki tab asking who wants to be the editor and explaining about language.  Remember there are different “kinds” of English – it took a while for Julie and I to analyze the fact that analyse was spelled differently throughout the project — a difference between Australian and US english.

I would love it if we can have wikis with different “official” languages — Some with European English, others American English and others Australian English – and perhaps even a brand of English I haven’t heard of!!

Once they agree, there is a place on the wiki page that they can use.  And remember, it is determined by who is wiling to be the editor — two Australian editors would be responsible for Australian English.

Now is a good time to take a “tour” of the four tabs on the wiki.  IF you need tips, let us know.