Teacher and Educational Resources

WIKIS:

pbwiki is an online, collaborative website which enables students to contribute infomation and knowledge they have gained throughout their course work to one shared place. Gone are the days in which students bring mounds of paper to and from the classroom. Now students are able to collaborate anywhere, anytime with other students and gain instantaneous recognition for their efforts. Teachers are able to regulate the website and work alongside students in building an online database of infomation for specfic course contents.

For teachers, pbwiki enables them to encorporate the Quality Teaching Framework into their lessons alongside ICT implementation. The use of pbwiki in the classroom, makes students responsible for the amount of infomation that is published and the quality to which that is achieved. Student work is made significant not only to the classroom but also to the wider community.

pbwiki can be implemented in the classroom in many ways and has proven to be an effective way of communicating student work to the broader, wider community.

For an example of how pbwiki can be implemented in the classroom, This Educational wiki has examples of all course infomation, including relevant syllabus infomation can be provided in one place for students to access anywhere, anytime.

GIFTED AND TALENTED:

Using pbwiki in gifted and talented classrooms promotes collaborative online learning and enhances student understanding of the significance of their learning. pbwiki can be incorporated into gifted and talented programs to further knowledge and understanding of course content. Students within gifted and talented classrooms have the ability to comprehend the significance of ICT implementation within the class and use it to its full potential. Students should be able to use pbwiki to colaborate on gifted and talented projects to produce high quality, informative results for each other to use. 

The positives about incorporating a pbwiki into a gifted and talented classroom:

• Students are able to work together to compile information of a high quality.
• Students are able to colaborate to produce significant work for the broader community.
• Students are able to understand and comprehend the validity of incorporating ICT into classrooms and using it to its full potential.
• pbwiki addresses several learning styles and will appeal to, and engage students on a deeper level.
• Students need to evaluate the information they provide on their pbwiki page, therefore they must take responsibilty for their learning.
• Students will undertake Deep Learning and understanding by the evaluation of the infomation they provide.

USING THIS PBWIKI:

Teachers can use this wiki in their classrooms as a case study when studying archaeology or local history. The site offers indepth infomation about the dig, with images, interviews and daily logs of infomation. Along with this site teachers can use dvd material about the dig site.

Teachers can implement the use of belgennydig.pbwiki in their lesson development and unit programming. Use the infomation provided on this site accompanied by supplementry material to inform students about HOW archaeological digs are conducted, WHAT archaeologists may find on their digs and the PURPOSE of archaeology in developing our knowledge of the past.

Junior History students can use this site when they are introduced to the art of archaeology. They will be able to develop an understanding of exactly how much infomation we can recieve from archaeological digs and how important they are in developing their local history.

Senior history students, especially those studying ancient history can gain a perspective of an archaeological dig that is local, and important to the understanding of their town history. It puts into perspective how an archaeological dig is conducted and gives first hand accounts of the dig process. Although Ancient history students will be looking at the history of places a great distance from Belgenny, they are able to develop their own understanding and broaden their knowledge of archaeology from a local source.

Teachers can provide questions and research tasks that incorporate belgennydig.pbwiki into student resources. Students can evaluate the artefacts found from the dig, which are provided through images on this site. They could also assess the process of archaeology itself.