My first step for week 3 was to create my own wiki and to give it a purpose in a learning context. I chose to set up a wiki to give students the opportunity to critique other student's artwork. My home page was used to give directions for adding to the wiki. These steps assume that the teacher is uploading all images leaving the students to fill in a description of the artwork, criteria and year level. Once this page is complete it's onto question time in the form of a scaffolded art critique on a separate page.
Enabling each student to comment on their peers work in this way would be a useful tool for teachers to gauge if students are actually engaging in the set task. Viewing the answers they leave could possibly indicate if the student has grasped an understanding of the art lessons. However it would be hard to know if they've actually just copied previous student's answers and haven't taken careful thought themselves.
This wiki allows students to make connections and has the potential to increase interactions with peers. Once all contributions are made group or class discussions can commence with the teacher quoting interesting observations and feedback.
The topic I chose, with the questions I left probably isn't suitable for younger year levels as they may not handle a critique that is not left in a positive way. This is where the wiki would be changed to suit.
I also created a website in conjunction with the wiki where the whole school can view student's artwork. This is the Art Gallery. There is a link in the Art Gallery that allows you, once you've finished viewing, to go to the Art Critiques page in wikispaces to get a better understanding of each artwork.
I find this to potentially be a very useful way to get student's artwork seen by the rest of the school as not all schools have the wall space to exhibit. Students would gain a sense of accomplishment and pride at having their work exhibited in a professional manner.
This website also allows other outside links to be made available, perhaps from other school's art departments, therefore allowing more connections and interactions to be made.
In an Education Queensland setting I'm not sure whether or not the implementation of such a website could be allowed. I believe blogs and wikis are able to be constructed in the Learning Place, and I know each school has there own general website that anyone can access, but for one to be set up for one specific KLA I really don't know. Maybe someone could answer that one for me?
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