From Wikigogy

Using wiki for lesson planning

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

Contents 1 Goal 2 Lesson objectives 3 Material 4 Prerequisite 5 Lesson 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Presentation 5.3 Application 5.4 Assessment 6 Helpful references

Goal

To use Wiki for lesson planning purposes

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

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

Prerequisite

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

Lesson

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.

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

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

Assessment

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

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