Wikis Related Videos

Wikis Related Videos

Wikis Activity No. 1

Day 1:

Objective: To improve students’ skills on making web pages through Wikis.

Students: Create an e-portfolio through your Wiki sites about the “Worlds Common Problems”.

Day 2:

Objective: To enhance students’ freedom of expressing thoughts and ideas by use of useful online sites.

Students: Visit a given wiki site, watch the documentary film posted and make a reaction essay and post it on the given site.

Wikis

           Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has simple text syntax for creating new pages and cross links between internal pages on the fly.
           Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

Activity Guides Using Twitter on Learning

1. Answering questions: In a similar strategy to the aforementioned information gathering, some educators streamline the process by allowing students to answer questions via Twitter rather than raising their hands. This greatly aids studying, too, as they can easily refer back via dedicated classroom hash tags.
2. Enabling discussion outside of class: Create a topic and post it online and students are going to make discussion about the given topic on Twitter.
3. Announcements: Rather than sending out a mass e-mail, many education professionals find it far easier to tweet changes, cancellations and other important announcements. Definitely avoids the dreaded spam filter that oftentimes prevents students from receiving time-sensitive messages.
4. Notifications about completed assignments: Conversely, many students use Twitter now to alert their teachers about when they’ve finished their work. This strategy works especially well for online courses or classrooms taking advantage of internet-based technologies.
5. Follow conferences: Some educators may want their students to follow certain professionals and keep track of the various happenings at relevant industry conferences. The more active feeds might even provide links to streaming video or audio!
6. Communicate with professionals: Instead of asking students to merely follow industry insiders, ask them to actually tweet a response and open a discussion — or at least try to, anyways. For high schoolers and the college crowd, this assignment might very well help them discover some personal career goals.
7. Take notes: Similar to the example about facilitating extracurricular discussion, Twitter also provides a quick way for students and teachers alike to take notes. Keeping everyone organized in a list makes it easier than ever to supplement (not replace) reviews for tests, quizzes and assignments.
8. Share a story: Put a social media twist on an old classroom favorite by asking students to play some fun story-go-round games on the famous microblogging site. The first tweets a sentence, the next builds off of it and so forth; try assigning a hashtag to make reading everything faster.
9. Map trends: Combine social media and geotracking with Twittermap, which allows users a chance to plug in and track what people are talking about where. For sociology and marketing students, such technology helps them better understand demographic needs and wants.
10. Keep parents informed: When teaching the younger set, parents may like to follow along with what’s going on in their children’s day. Keep a Twitter feed updating them about the different lessons and activities as they happen for greater engagement between the home and the classroom.
11. Set up a poll: Teachers might want to set up a Twitter poll for either their students or the broader microblogging community. The applications are limited only by one’s own creativity; for an added bonus, combine the poll with some sort of geotracker.
12. Word of the day: No matter the class, a vocabulary word, book, song, quote or something else “of the day” might very well make an excellent supplement to the day’s lesson. When teaching younger kids, tell their parents about the Twitter feed and encourage them to talk about postings at home.

Twitter Activity No. 1

Day 1:
         Conduct a film show on your classroom. Let the students make a reaction essays about the given film and publish or post it to Twitter.

Day 2:
         Students are going to make a discussion on Twitter about the given film.

Day 3:
        On the classroom, students are going to evaluate the use of Twitter as another tool for lesson discussions.

Twitter

Twitter seems to be the most popular microblogging system. Officially launched in October 2006, Twitter was developed by Obvious Corp.

This robust, elegant, and simple system has gained important popularity, rapidly approaching 1 million users - TwittDir reports over 940 thousand twitterers in March.

After creating an account in a few seconds, a user can start twittering. The users of Twitter can send and receive messages via the web, SMS, instant messaging clients, and by third party applications. The notifications can be received in real-time as SMS, IM or RSS. Twitter is one of the few applications which deliver free SMS outside USA.

Posts are limited to 140 text characters in length. This is why Twitter was called social networking in 140 characters.

People use Twitter to communicate, to ask questions, to ask for directions, support, advice, and to validate open-ended interpretations or ideas by discussing with the others. Twitter has mashed up personal publishing and communication, the result being a new type of real-time publishing.

As what have said, Twitter may be the most popular micro blogging site on the Web, but it is also an effective teaching tool. Educators, who once relied on books and blackboards, are now turning to digital applications which serve to enhance their student’s academic progress. With greater speed and functionality, Twitter creates an online platform for communication that rivals conventional blogging.

Some Positive Things About Twitter

1. Twitter helps one organize great, instant meetups (tweetups).
2. Twitter works swell as an opinion poll.
3. Twitter can help direct student’s attention to good things.
4. Twitter in the classroom helps people build an instant “backchannel.”
5. Twitter breaks news faster than other sources, often (especially if the news impacts online denizens).
6. Twitter gives institutions a glimpse at what status messaging can do for an organization.
7. Twitter brings great minds together, and gives everyone daily opportunities to learn (if you look for it, and/or if you follow the right folks).
8. Twitter gives your critics a forum, but that means you can study them.
9. Twitter helps with staff development, find other teachers.
10. Twitter can augment parent feedback.

Social Networking Sites such as Twitter are usually been overrated. We should not close our doors on its positive benefits. The outcome of using them depends on the person that uses them. They can be destructive in some ways, but can also be useful in positive ways.

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