Evaluating Your GAME Plan Progress

I played around with wikispaces a lot over the past few days. I made myself 2 wikis just to get a feel of what I might use. I made one for this Walden class, and then another one using a free 30 day trial of an educator account. I know my school wouldn’t purchase the educator’s subscription off the bat, but maybe if I make a sample page and show them the possibilities they might consider it. I was concerned that my students would need to have email addresses to write on my wikipage, but I found a way around that. I added 3 fake students using their first name as their username and also as their password. This will make it easy to remember for both of us if there is a problem. I’m thinking of using this wiki idea with our Explorers unit next year. This year we’re trying a webquest, which I was initially excited about. After going through it with my students however, I’m not as impressed as I thought I was with the particular site. I still need to play around more with the wiki. It is taking me awhile to make sample pages, look at them from a student’s point of view, and then think how I can logistically expect nine and ten year olds to complete the tasks. I think that my original plan will still work, I just need to practice myself more so that I am comfortable with everything. Making the wiki has been relatively simple, it is the “teacher stuff” that is taking me awhile.