To wiki or not to wki? - that is the question...

I thought this week being the last week before I would try something different using wikispaces. Effectively a wikispace allows students to create webpages to present their information and are available for students to edit. So, I set my year nine the task of creating a wikispace and it had to contain the following information:

1. What is sustainable development?
2. Renewable and Non-renewable resources
3. What is Global Warming?
4. The effects of Global Warming?
5. What is Acid Rain and the effects of it

Below is the set of basic instructions I gave the students. What I liked about the task was the fact it was so open-ended and the students once they got the hang of them started to produce some good work barring some simple technical problems.

Wiki Spaces Task

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work Education software project

Below are some links to some of the students work. They are works in progress. They have the Easter Holidays to do more to their work and two lessons after Easter Holidays to complete the task.

http://josh2009.wikispaces.com/

http://grimsbyglobalistation.wikispaces.com/

http://gtfckieran.wikispaces.com/

http://geographysite.wikispaces.com/

http://patrickgeography.wikispaces.com/

Again these are works in progress but the signs are encouraging!!

Mr. Still