Sunday, March 15, 2009
A Wiki Update..."Enough Social Networking!"
Just thought I'd update everyone to let them know how our class wiki is going. The students had their "exploring" of it last week and you may recall they discovered the commenting feature. I wasn't too upset as I realized they are social creatures and enjoy conversing with others, so they needed to have this exploratory time. However, after explaining that I receive emails informing me of every update that is made to the site and that all comments should be related to the content/purpose of this wiki, I still had one student decide to post an unrelated comment. Oh I let him have it! I was so disappointed after all the time/energy I've put into this. I told him to save his shout outs for AIM, Facebook, Twitter, and the like, and printed out the page he was to be responsible for this week. I sent it home with him to complete a section of it over the weekend as homework. Harsh? Maybe. I was definitely out to prove a point. I don't think the class has ever seen me so fired up. They looked on in horror. I guess it shows how passionate I am about this and how crushed I was to not have everyone using this appropriately. Not to put a damper on it, though...Most students are adding lots of content to our Global Awareness Wiki and it is really turning out great!
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I am glad the wiki is going well overall. I feel that those "darling" children will always be there. There will always be at least one. I'm sure that you let him, and the rest of the class, know the importance and hopefully everyone will be fine.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you are sharing the negatives too. It gives us all something to think about when we want to start our own.
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