Two heads are better than one and usually there is something I end up missing. I had a hard lesson this week.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Surveys
Only the two classes I have provided time for to complete the online survey have done so. I asked the other classes to complete the online survey at home and it has not happened. Probably there is too much on their plate, so I will need to endeavor to force them. I will provide some time for them this week. That way, I can take a look at the data and begin pulling out some important information. I have scheduled to meet with a colleague to discuss the survey report.
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Paula, can you email me and I'll enter YOUR email in my USERS on my PBWiki? It's a closed site and you can only access the thing if you have a password (I paid extra for that!). JohnTaylor1973@gmail.com
They don't spam or anything like that. But when you DO first log on, make sure on the opening page you click NEVER for the updates. Otherwise you'll get updates every time someone edits the wikipages. Arrrrgh! Thanks. And Paula, I just logged on tonight and I'm hitting the hay. I have your wiki bookmarked JUST under mine. So I will be sure to check it out tomorrow and come on here and comment!
What was the lesson this week? Last one on there was heat insulation (this science stuff makes my head hurt). I'm almost up to speed with yours now, btw. GOODY GOODY! A couple things, Paula:
I liked the Jacqui one and the Maddie/Chris one. I also wanna know how they got that graph on there.
Your kids (like mine), approach this from all sorts of angles. Some of them are plain, with just text. Some threw up ppts (the first week's lessons). Some had links to lots of pages with just a paragraph here and there.
That's JUST like mine! Although with mine there's a good bit more pictures. My kids like pictures.
Excellent comments, too. Very assessment FOR learning comments:)
Do you like wetpaint? I don't think I like it as much as PBwiki. But I'm only looking at is as a guest. And I'm only really talking about the aesthetics, so who really gives a crap? Heh heh.
Now I want to show it to one of the Biology teachers here at my school. She's got OODLES of links and such on her website, but she's never had kids do their projects on the web.
Have you had any problems with motivation in your groups? Specifically, have you had groups come to you complaining of a dead third wheel? That has not happened to me, but that's because I told them from the outset that a simple click on HISTORY will show me who, what, when, where, and how each student edited the pages.
That quieted down the anger from the other group members because they knew the lazy one would get hammered on that aspect of the wikirubric.
This looks like a thunderous success, Paula!!!
(on a totally separate note, I'm trying to talk to my AVID kids about the circle of life stuff. And I was trying to tell them that the water they drink right now at one point in time used to be dinosaur urine. What section of the Biology book should I be looking at to explain that one? I bet it's not bio, it's enviro. science)
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