WIKI wild

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I have been looking at the free wiki space that has been set up for me via this blog. Perhaps the use of a class wiki could add another dimension to writing in class. Group and collaborative work can be included and a constant history of changes and edits can be seen. The class wiki might include different spaces on different subjects – such as History>World War 2 and a space for the children to write and gather together any research that is done. It would be an interesting lesson to explore using the ICT suite and then reviewing our work back in class.

There could also be a link to historical work here – at the beginning of units we explore the questions we want to find out – these could be posted on the wiki or on the blog and then answers gathered throughout the unit.

I expect that as I use both the BLOG and WIKI more I will appreciate the differences more than I do now.

Blogging

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This whole blogging thing has caught up with me. I have started one for my son to record his first few years with us – I hope it will be something that he enjoys looking back upon later in life. It is great fun to do.

My own blog will be a learning curve as well, I have begun to explore the ways that blogs can be used in education and specifically with my class next September. At my first teaching post I had to build and maintain a website, fitting this around work is hard. The beauty of blogging is how easy it is to create and publish work online.

I have been exploring the learnerblog site a little and with the help from Mr Hetherington in the states I have got a good idea of how to build a class blog. See instructions here.

Number 1

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So here I am – first blog about me and my ICT. It is something I am passionate about and hopefully this space will be somewhere for me to channel my thoughts a little and to explore my experiences of ICT in my classroom.