Reflection journal 6

9/12/2014

This week we have been assigned to complete a story in wikispaces. There have been given two sentences: the introduction and the conclusion and, our group, have had to complete it activating our imagination and demonstrating our writing capacities. I like the activity a lot because it is not a simple writing activity in which you have to introduce the studied vocabulary, it is a collaborative story (all members of the group have to participate in the composition).


Personally, I think that wikis are an useful collaborative tool for schools because evaluating with wikis is very simple. Teachers may see how many people have participated in the composition and in what way (if their writing abilities are high or low).

I have just used wikis as a student twice: the first time in Bachillerato and the second one at the university. In Bachillerato, we used the classroom wiki for the subject of “Lengua Castellana y Literatura”, concretely for analyzing text typologies and for writing critical comments (that two activities were essential for passing the subject and also for “Selectividad”). At the university, we have been assigned various activities to be done with wikis in the subject of New Technologies.

11/12/2014

We have designed some tasks that have to be done with the classroom wiki:

1. Students have to write a story about the Middle Ages in small groups, and then upload it to the wiki.

2.       In pairs, each student writes a riddle and their partners must guess the answer. Later, each pair has to upload the riddles to the wiki, without the answers, so that the rest of their classmates can try to solve them at home if they want to.

3.    The teacher uploads a comic cartoon with empty bubbles, which students have to complete individually by embedding speech. In the end, they upload their productions to the wiki.