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Hometown:: Vermont

School / Work Affiliation: Ed Tech coordinator ANESU

About Me:: I coordinate six schools' use of ed tech in rural Vermont. I also teach a high school elective class called Futures Academy, with 25 laptops and about 25 students, in which we help students figure out where to go after high school. One of my favorite jobs at the high school is coordinating the creation and maintenance of electronic portfolios for all of our students.

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At 8:03pm on August 4, 2008, indigo196 said…: > The plan is to have all tenth graders examine our local
> cemetary, select a headstone from a specific time period, do
> research(as defined by the teacher), develop a product of
> some sort using the wiki to collaborate, and post the resulting
> "project" to a wiki.

A Wiki should be seen as an on-line collaborative encyclopedia. When I hear what you are talking about I think of a project my wife is doing. She is currently researching all the US Civil War veterans who were buried in our town. She is finding their relatives, where they enlisted, their units, etc. If that was the kind of research your students are doing it might be good for each student to take one headstone as you said... and they are responsible for the wiki page of that 'person'... but they should also create additional wiki pages that could end up being collaborative. For example student one would find a person who was in the 33rd NY and in the process of writing about the person he would create a wiki 'page' for the 33rd NY. Then other students who also found people with connections to the 33rd NY would be collaborating with student one. This would be possible with finding people who all worked at a local hotel or other business as well.

> Each group will ask a question at the end of their wiki to try to
> get kids from around the world to push the thinking a bit
> farther, whether it is about the process of historical research,
> or a particular issue in, say, the 1820's. They should be ready > for posting in mid-Sept. Of course, no personally identifiable
> information will be disclosed.

Not sure how to approach the 'questions' part... but producing a history of your local community could be seen as a community asset and your students could be exposed to the local American Legion post (which may or may not have record going back to the time period you want to cover) and the local historical society.

I think the project sounds fairly exiting... I would probably build a wiki that was open to the public for both viewing and editing as long as the wiki you use allows for you to see how edited the pages; though some of the 'experience' could be seeing how your students deal with 'external' edits on their primary page in addition to seeing how they 'collaborate' with their peers.

At 2:39pm on August 4, 2008, indigo196 said…: I will try to respond to your question (scenario later tonight -- have to go plant a bush with my wife and play with the youngsters right now)

At 7:12pm on August 3, 2008, indigo196 said…: Please feel free to send me a message about web 2.0 tools to use in the classroom -- both internal and external.

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