Big week planned. In math, this is the week students will take their semester final. And in my World History (6th) and Non-Western Culture (7th) classes the students will be able to start adding to the wiki pages.
In math class, I gave each students a copy of the tests that they have taken so far this year. So they have a reminder of the stuff that they did not understand completely. I then have gone over some of the more difficult problems. I sent a long e-mail to parents recommending how their children should prepare and have reminded both parents and students that the videos are there if they have any questions.
In the two history classes, I figured out the way of adding permission for the students to be able to add to some of the pages without having to have their e-mails. It was really pretty easy to do it trough the bulk user e-mail feature on the wikispaces site. I was able to use this because I have a K-12 education site. That was pretty easy to get since all I had to do was e-mail the good people at wikispaces. It should be an interesting experience this week when I start to introduce to them how they can easily add stuff to the pages. I am going to start on this on Tuesday and have not decided yet whether to set clear parameters or to let the students just find stuff that interests them and that they think might interest others. I am torn between these two feelings. the 20th C. teacher is worried but the 21st C. teacher in me thinks the possibilities are worth the risk.
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