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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Sounds like a great
idea. Go for it Joseph<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Joseph Papaleo<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 6 September 2006
9:57 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Year
12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'Mailing List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Year 12 IPM] wiki
textbook, blogs and podcasts</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In relation to the
digital textbook idea, I have waited for someone else to suggest this, but no
one has. So I'll go out on a limb and put this idea out into the IPM
community, perhaps to ridicule, perhaps others have also considered it, but not
put it up for comment. <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
I am seriously considering having my students write their own collaborative
textbook online. I am looking at having a class text book (Potts) and
then creating a set of blank wiki pages for the class. At this stage, I
am undecided as to whether it would be restricted access or open to the public.
<br>
<br>
Their task will be to prepare a summary and answer questions and put their work
onto the wiki. Students will share the workload, but it will be their
task to read additional material (other books or websites I will source) and
add to the notes. Of course, this sounds like a lot of work, bit as
"Student A" may have already done most of the summarising,
"Students B, C D E ..." just have to add other tidbits or fix errors
(the beauty of a wiki). By carefully rotating the tasks amongst the
class, each will be given a variety of tasks that must be done carefully as the
other class members will hopefully rely on them. <br>
<br>
I have been playing with a wiki for my Year 12 class in the latter half of this
year and found that weaker students had their answers corrected online by
better students and all of a sudden, they realised how poor their work standard
was and it improved each time it was their turn to add work to the site. <br>
<br>
I hope to then keep the wiki content for 2008 and beyond (remove the questions
each year) and then use this and Potts as a textbook which they can continue to
develop.<br>
<br>
I'll be the first to admit their are flaws with this, but I can see lots of
benefits too. So do the students who contribute regularly as they are
sharing the resource and then doing extra reading/writing. <br>
<br>
If there is interest from other list members, I would consider opening it up
for others to join in.<br>
<br>
I am now looking at establishing a class blog or bloki and finding ways to
incorporate these ideas into the curriculum. I saw other members of the
list discuss the possibilities of using podcasts and am keen to look at this (I
was stoked a few weeks ago when one of my students took his iPod out to
retrieve a .txt file of the Information Processing Steps he had entered onto
the iPod). has anyone else seen other examples of this use of the iPods? <br>
<br>
I struggle with numbers like many others and so with the new Study Design, I've
decided to use IT in my IT class and make it rich, real and
relevant. <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Joseph Papaleo<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Ivanhoe</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Grammar School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> <br>
Mernda Campus, <br>
Plenty<br>
<a href="mailto:joseph.papaleo@igs.vic.edu.au">joseph.papaleo@igs.vic.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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