Examples

Examples Suppose our Thanksgiving assembly was something that you had planned as a class activity – this requires just a little willing suspension of disbelief. In this case, let’s say that we required each person to find something to present about Thanksgiving. We start about a week ahead of time and set up a new page in our wiki – ThanksgivingAssemly. [see how to set up a new page.] Then for one night’s homework assignment, we ask everyone to pick something and upload it to the wikipage for the assembly. The next day in class, we look at the wikipage together and see if there are any repeats or if we see any notable exclusions, such as no one picking ‘Over the river and Through the Wood’. We negotiate who is doing what part, the order and such, and then the next activity is for each person to create a new page for their presentation. We practice and deliver the presentations. Before the assembly begins, however, we assign specific people in the room to make summary notes on specific parts of the presentation. All the summary notes are to be written on one new wikipage, which we create, and everyone adds their own paragraph too. When it comes time for studying for the test for this unit – 20 multiple choice identifications taken right from the assembly and 1 20-minute essay question – the class already has the text of all the presentations (that was assigned to each presenter) and has a single page of summary notes with everyone’s observations about themes, connections, feedback, etc. Would it be helpful to build this example in this wiki? Answer in the Discussion tab.