Blog Thirteen- Wikispaces
Posted by Emily mcdonald on Tuesday, May 22, 2012
I am currently finding Wikispaces hard to use. According to Meaningful Learning with Technology, Wikis create an online environment for students to join in a community while learning about a specific topic. Wikispaces is a website in which you are able to create pages of necessary information for a learning purpose and this is how we are presenting assignment three. Wikispaces allows you to also communicate with your group members and also allows to edit anything you desire, which is helpful in group situations as sometimes people can see an error that has been made that you can't.
Both my computers dont seem to like Wikispaces as they both load the page very slow and therefore it is taking twice as long to write things as it usually would. Although it is a great idea and looks great, I am finding it very irritating to have to wait for words to appear on the screen. I discussed this problem with others in the class who all seem to be have the same difficulties, also on the discussion forum for this unit it appears that others are having the same problems but have solves it by downloading a new browser, something I would prefer not to do.
On out Wikispace we have a Home page that contains information about the assignment such as what age, topic and how it fits into the curriculum criteria of that age group. The Task page contains information that will describe the topic and instructions of how to complete the task. We will write ours in teacher mode as our website to directed at teachers. The Resources page which is what I have been working on will contain links to documents, websites, videos etc for teachers to use in the classroom. After finding a large number of resources with the help of Jessica McDonald I asked Bianca if she could help out by finding documents about the digestive system. She was happy to oblige and soon enough we had all our resources. The final page is a page containing information for the teacher to use, it will contain a brief overview of the lessons and provide information necessary to teach this subject.
Both my computers dont seem to like Wikispaces as they both load the page very slow and therefore it is taking twice as long to write things as it usually would. Although it is a great idea and looks great, I am finding it very irritating to have to wait for words to appear on the screen. I discussed this problem with others in the class who all seem to be have the same difficulties, also on the discussion forum for this unit it appears that others are having the same problems but have solves it by downloading a new browser, something I would prefer not to do.
On out Wikispace we have a Home page that contains information about the assignment such as what age, topic and how it fits into the curriculum criteria of that age group. The Task page contains information that will describe the topic and instructions of how to complete the task. We will write ours in teacher mode as our website to directed at teachers. The Resources page which is what I have been working on will contain links to documents, websites, videos etc for teachers to use in the classroom. After finding a large number of resources with the help of Jessica McDonald I asked Bianca if she could help out by finding documents about the digestive system. She was happy to oblige and soon enough we had all our resources. The final page is a page containing information for the teacher to use, it will contain a brief overview of the lessons and provide information necessary to teach this subject.