NextGenTeachers Podcast about Our Current Student Wiki Projects

Friday, 9 February 2007 Clay Burell Print This Post

The folks at NextGenTeachers were nice enough to invite me onto their podcast about, well, “Next Generation Teachers”–those of us “messily learning” how to do things never before possible in classrooms. It was great fun (except for the failed joke that was my first comment–c’mon, editors, have pity on your nervous guests! ).

We discussed wikis, mainly, and in particular,

the French Revolution “Ant Farm Diaries” wiki project the grade 9 learners at my school just completed (I finally started grading it today, and am amazed at the quality of imagination, writing, collaboration, and historical accuracy these students produced!); and
the 1001+ Flat World Tales world writing wiki project that is finally getting started next week, in which (so far) students from Colorado, Hawaii, Missouri, Connecticut, Canada, and here in Seoul will collaborate in a writing workshop. (This project never closes, so feel free to jump in whenever you’re moved. See FAQ page on link above for more info.)

Subscribe Free Add to my PageThanks to all involved in NextGenTeachers–Chris Craft (and here) in Columbia, South Carolina, USA; Tom Barrett in the Nottingham, UK; Justin Medved in Bangkok, Thailand; Aaron Smith in Maryland, USA; Julie Lindsay in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Jeff Utecht (and here) in Shanghai, China–for taking interest and sharing tips and tricks.

Watch the world flatten…. Have I mentioned that I’m amazed?

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2 Responses to “NextGenTeachers Podcast about Our Current Student Wiki Projects”

Julie Lindsay writes:
No. 1 — February 10th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Hi Clay, thanks for your conversation on IV, sorry my Internet connection was not able to allow me to be there with you. I have blogged about your project this evening. Good luck!

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Clay Burell writes:
No. 2 — February 10th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Thanks for spreading the word, Julie.

One thing about the read-write web that also amazes me is how other educators’ writings help me clarify my thinking by often articulating what I’m doing more clearly than I’m able to. You’ve done it here.

I’m able to add one thing to this post: wikis do enable the traditional language arts “best practices” known as “the writing workshop” and “the writing process” to function more powerfully on this web-based platform….

In other words, my collaborating teachers and I haven’t abandoned “traditional” best practices: we’ve only emigrated them onto wikis to exploit new advantages.

Keep the helpful reflections coming

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