Group Project – Making a Wiki EDN113 – Living and Learning with Technology KAL-culated Learning – Katherine Bamford, Amy Muir and Lisa Martinez
Working as a group Contacting group members via Set a time to meet up for coffee and a chat Deciding on a topic and age group for the wiki teacher’s resource Dividing up the task into ‘who is doing what’ – or so we thought at that stage!
The Wiki - Online Logging into the wiki via the companion website Creating pages named with our group name and a heading Creating a tag name for each page
Problems-Causing us to rethink Our task subject was too broad – rethink Solution: Healthy Eating The way we had divided up the task was not going to work – rethink Solution: Take a page each of Introduction, Task, Resources or Teachers Info.
Homepage Introduce topic and year level Add curriculum alignment details Add task overview Add appropriate photos Add a navigation menu Add a list of resources
Task Page Discuss ‘Healthy Eating’ topic in more detail Step by step instructions for daily activities Attached related photos for the topic Added links for websites and movies
Resources Page Found information relating to each of the following resources: Websites, documents, interactive whiteboards, movies, social networking sites. Added related photos for the topic
Teacher Info Page Detailed information for teachers about teaching ‘healthy eating’ topic to K-PP In depth lesson plan for project Lesson timing Resources for each day Links to related resources Added related photos for topics
Conclusion Increased our technological knowledge Developed skills of working as a group Gained basic knowledge of lesson planning