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Experiments with Online classrooms at St Mary Star of the Sea College, Wollongong
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Tried it - Sue
Surprising but true
What did I try with Year 12?• Wiki with Year 12 IPT
• The purpose of the Wiki was to create a resource that all the students could share for study
• The students were asked to summarise hardware and software and social and ethical issues across the dot points instead of down.
• Each student would do a different issue. The students wrote their topic on the board to prevent two topics being created at the same time.
• I started a Wiki for them with some headings and a sample new page for them to copy
• I would have liked to have done a module Wiki across the two classes but this did not work, so they were individual class Wikis
Surprises
• One student said that this was too hard and she didn’t like it
• My reply was that she found it hard because she had to construct the knowledge instead of me giving it to her
• She started working then• The next slide is the result
What did I try with Year 11
• Wiki with Year 11• The purpose of this Wiki was for the students to
learn about Wikis. • I included a question in their exam about the process
of creating Wikis.• Students were asked to summarise the social and
ethical issues across the dot points• Again I started a Wiki for them with some headings
Surprises
• One student kept asking me if this was in the exam. My answer was “Sort of”
• These students were happy to experiment. They found symbols to insert
What else did I try with Year 12?• Blogs with Year 12
• The purpose of this blog was for the students to write ask for help from me and from each other
• I stated this blog with a request for revision topics to be done in class
Surprises
• Why should I be surprised?• The students only wanted to have fun• In one lesson they flogged it with inappropriate
entries• However I found that I could delete them
• (Should I have done this?)• This is what remains
What did I try with embedding?• I found that I could embed utubes• This solves the problem of access utubes
How do I try to save paper?• The students have access to the HSC papers,
notes and answers directly through Janison• I use announcements instead of notes• I copy pages from other textbooks using the
email facility on the photocopier and post them on Janison
• I post my handouts on Janison
What did I try with Pageflakes• I showed my husband how to do this• He loved it • He could now access RSS feeds from Adobe
about the latest developments in Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc
Nothing surprises me anymore
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