Wednesday, February 18, 2009
If you wiki, I will follow??
I have been curious about developing ways to use wikis in my classroom. But today was the end of one of my units and they had to do a presentation to a group of "investors". I told them that they needed to have the powerpoint to me before class (emailed on Sunday, brought to me yesterday). In one class with 10 groups, I had 4. I gave them every opportunity to get this to me. If I can't get them to turn in this work, how can I expect them to take time outside of class to go online and post?
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Good point! But, I think that more will go on and post than turn in an assignment because they love to send messages, this is like sending a message to someone. It is worth trying? What are you going to do about parents...a letter, permission slip?
ReplyDeleteAhhh, the homework frustration!! So, even at the high school level you have this problem?! Well, what about giving them time in class to do it in the beginning? I'm not sure if you'd have time for that. If so, that might get them comfortable with it and I think the idea of others reading their work (and possibly changing it or adding to it) might be motivating.
ReplyDeleteI hope they would be more willing to post online. I haven't thought enough about this to consider what to do about parents. Its just an idea, not near enough ready to implement.
ReplyDeleteHomework is definitely still a frustration in high school (especially when some students come from middle schools that allow late work or still give a minimum score with no work - things we don't allow). I would definitely introduce a wiki in class. But they did work on part of the project in class. What I didn't understand was that every group accomplished something in class. Where did that work go?? At least it was something...
Some kids are just not going to do the work. When you have days like this focus on the kids that are. I try to make positive phone calls home when things aren't going well. Total Pollyanna here.
ReplyDeleteWas one person in charge in each group? Were they supposed to get together as a group and work outside class or work individually and send it all to one person to put it together and send it to you? It could be just clarifying/changing the directions might help. It's amazing how the work in class disappears as soon as they leave the room. Do they have online storage that you have access to so you can view their progress over the course of the assignment?
ReplyDeleteHi Karilee,
ReplyDeleteI miss you on blackboard, so I thought I’d read your blog. I agree with you comments about homework. I had my advance classes do a PowerPoint on nomenclature (naming of compounds) and gave them 2 weeks to prepare it and I still had late projects. I think a blog or wiki might be more appealing to our students. They love texting and think a blog/wiki would give them a different approach to turning in homework. I’m thinking of a blog with my class. Don’t give up, I think it’s a great idea!