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Using wiki for lesson planning

This is a Category:Teacher training lesson, as its name suggests, not an English lesson.

[edit] Goal

To use Wiki for lesson planning purposes

[edit] Lesson objectives

Student teachers will be able to:

1. create a Wikigogy account
2. access lesson plans produced by other teachers of ESL/EFL
3. post a self-produced task
4. ask questions, give comments or feedback to another writer’s lesson

[edit] Material

1. computer and projector screen
2. computers for each student with Internet access and a Web browser (and maybe a word processor, too, initially)
3. lesson plan handout
4. direction handout

practice using VODcasting

[edit] Prerequisite

1. advanced English (all tasks on Wikigogy must be written in English)
2. computer skills

[edit] Lesson

[edit] Introduction

Students will become members of an online lesson planning community whereby they will share their lessons/tasks, pedagogical ideas and materials with others. They will ask questions, or give comments and feedback on a lesson written by other educators. Students' lessons and lesson planning skills will be improved by becoming members of an online community that will aid them in their lesson planning.

[edit] Presentation

1. T introduce self
2. T gives overview of Wiki in education and ELT
3. T gives rationale for Wikigogy workshop
4. T shows features of Wikigogy site

[edit] Application

1. T demonstrates how to log into Wikigogy and how to create account (http://wikigogy.org)
2. Ss create account
3. Ss explore categories and lessons
4. Ss type "Teacher training" in search box to access workshop's lesson
5. T reviews parts of a lesson (goal, objectives, materials, presentation, application, assessment)
6. T demonstrates on projector screen how to post task on Wikigogy.org
7. Ss create a task for any linguistic point of choice using a Microsoft Word
8. Ss copy and paste task onto Wikigogy(using instruction handout and assistance from T)
9. T demonstrates on projector screen how to respond to someone else's task (post questions, comments and feedback on Talk pages)
10. T assigns each ST a partner whose task s/he is to give a response to
11. Ss search for partner's task on Wikigogy site and responds to it on it's Talk page
12. Class discussion about workshop

[edit] Assessment

1. Students' logged onto Wikigogy and created an account
2. Students posted a task
3. Students posted a question, comment, feedback

[edit] Helpful references

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf http://www.schaffert.eu/download/paper/Schaffert06_SemWikiLearning.pdf http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/pdf/augar.pdf http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006/proceedings/p37.pdf http://ijklo.org/Volume3/IJKLOv3p057-072Parker284.pdf http://www.englishaustralia.com.au/ea_conference2006/proceedings/pdf/Chylinski.pdf