Following the face-to-face session

The objectives of this course activity are to:

• make contact with participants of the face-to-face
• share ideas emerging from the course so far.

As explained by your facilitator in the face-to-face session, the course forum is available to all participants in the course after the end of the two hour facilitated session.

Go to the forum and post a message to the other participants. You may wish to reflect on the course so far, or post some ideas that have emerged from your planning of how to use a wiki with your learners

The objective of this course activity is to make use of some of the ideas shared in the face-to-face session together with your reading to think about how you would create a school or class wiki and how learners would contribute to it.

The face-to-face session introduced some ideas for how primary schools use a wiki. You may have already thought of some activities that your learners could engage with that will allow them to contribute to either a school or class wiki. Think now about how you would create a wiki and whether it would be for a small group, a class or the whole school. You might want to focus on a few learners, and have a lunchtime wiki club, where you could plan and create a wiki with this small group. Or you might want to create a wiki for your class and focus on a specific project already planned in a scheme of work. Plan what type of wiki you would like to create, identify the group of learners and the topic. In your plan think about whether your wiki will be part of your school’s VLE or whether you will make use of wiki software.

If you are enthusiastic enough to create a school wiki, or want to do more than just a basic wiki for your class, take a look at the course Learning together: developing wikis (V01s). This course goes into far more detail about how to add different media to the wiki.

When you have planned your wiki, go to the course forum and post a message that highlights your main ideas. Read other posts from participants to see how their planning activity has progressed. You may find ideas there that you could use in your wiki when you start to build it.