Saturday, September 24, 2011

Week #2 in CED 535

This week we are taking a look at Wiki's in education.  I've found some great Physics Education Wiki's in my search for how we use wiki's in education.  My school got wiki crazy back two years ago and we did not implement them very well in the classroom.  It was really just an add on that we did not engage very much.  These websites do a much better job of using a wiki appropriately:


http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/ - A great resource for using the modeling method in physics education. It has a couple of neat thoughts about how to use wikis in a few of the posts.

http://www.slideshare.net/dannynic/blogs-and-wikis-in-science-teaching - This is not a wiki or blog, but it is a presentation of a lot of great ideas about how to implement a blog or wiki into a science classroom. There are a ton of links inside the presentation about current science teachers and their pages, blogs and wikis

http://teachingofscience.wordpress.com/ - This blog is a must for all of us in the course to take a look at.  The writer gives a lot of great ideas about how to use blogs and wikis in the classroom.  Most of the posts are very well written and contain a lot of great stuff.

http://mrmackenzie.co.uk/ - This is a very neat physics wiki from a British Physics Teacher that  has the same sense of humor in the classroom that I have.  The wiki is incredibly well laid out and has an outstanding use of video, weblinks and other resources for students.  While it is not a blog, it is a shinning example of how you can harness a lot of different media to get students to learn.

I was also able to get a twitter account going: http://twitter.com/JohnBWilkinson 
I don't know how I'll use it yet, but it might be a homework reminder tool or a professional development tool.


Lastly, here is a youtube video channel that I have been having some fun with after finding it on one of the blogs above:
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3 comments:

  1. JaredSeptember 24, 2011 at 5:44 PM

    John---
    I thought your resources were very interesting, but what I found the most useful was your insight of your school district's technology "add on". I think too often school districts either incorporate technology for the sake of technology; or simply institute something with little direction toward how to use it. Is this your schools "par for the course," or is it simply an exception?

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  2. Sue BiehnSeptember 26, 2011 at 7:15 PM

    I like how you describe your school's approach to introducing wikis as going "wiki crazy!" While it sounds funny, I think it is not unusual for individuals or groups to try the next best thing before really thinking through the most appropriate way to introduce it.
    Now that you've had some experience with blogging and online tools, how will that impact the way you use wikis in your classroom?

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  3. Tech-lou-ologySeptember 27, 2011 at 5:33 PM

    What lessons have you learned from the initial foray into Wiki's that you can implement for success?

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