Wild West Wiki L & L Schedule

Wild West Wiki & Blog Lunch and Learn Schedule

Day 1:
Show Nixon vs. Kennedy Debate video as teachers get their lunch.
What is a blog? (show an example)

What is a wiki? (show and example)

What is the difference?

What is the purpose of using blogs and Wikis with students?
How can I use this in my teaching?

Accept invitation, if you haven’t already.

Post a comment to this blog answering the question: What ideas do you have?

Day 2:
Show How To Create a Blog on Bloger video as teachers get their lunches.
Explaine the resources found on the sidebar of our Wild West blog
Hina Patel will showcase her __________
Karen Malinowski will showcase her __________________
Questions for our presenters?
Post comments on blog.

Day 3:
Video on how to create a Wiki while teachers are getting their lunch.
Mr. Orna will showcase his Ning
Ms. G. Stavroulias will showcase her Feeders are Readers _________.
Ms Browne or Ms. Monegato or Ms. Asmus will showcase our Class Assignments Wiki.
Questions for presenters?
Post comments to blog.

Day 4:
Show a “How to Create a Wiki” video while the teachers get their sandwiches.
Reinforce the reasons for using Wiki in your curriculum.
Show them where they can find Assessments and Rubrics for grading their blogs and Wikis.
Show them how to sign up a class.
Tell them that using blogs and wikis can be identified in curriculum mapping as meeting the common core standards.

Day 5:

Show videos Wikis in Plain English and Blogs in Plain English as teachers get their lunch.
Ask the teachers to start a Wiki or Blog.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/home

Rationale for Blogging by Anne Davis

from Edublogs:

http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/01/17/rationale-for-educational-blogging/

Planning for the Lunch and Learns

With the idea of organizing our Lunch and Learn –Wikis and Blogs, Denise and I used our “Reference Interview” format to identify our purpose, objectives, and skills. Hopefully this information will help us successful design our five day lunch and learn. Following is what we came up with:

Purpose: Starting a conversation on using blogs and wikis in the classroom.

Objectives:

1. Teachers will be able to compare and contrast Blogs and Wikis.

2. Teachers will be able to create their own blogs and wikis.

3. Teachers’ knowledge of how wikis and blogs are being used by Leyden faculty as well as educators across the nation will be increased significantly.

Skills:

1. Identify a blog and a wiki.

2. Create blogs and wikis.

3. Use blogs and wikis in their curriculums

Please consider this document a conversation starter. Denise and I spent 10 minutes knocking it out so it is clearly a work in progress

Carolyn

Will Richardson's Blog

on Blogs:

http://weblogg-ed.com/category/blogging/

on Wikis:

http://weblogg-ed.com/category/wikis/

Blogs vs. Wikis

How are teachers viewing the blog posts? Can they view all the posts by searching for a students entries?

Examples of how Educators are Using Wikis

This web site provides some interesting examples of how educators are using Wikis. Some wikis are very simple and others are elaborate. I particularly like the Wiki set up for use by a Film Club. Coaches and club sponsors may be looking for an easy way to communicate with and track their members.

http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis