This week we put the finishing touches to our films and showcased them with a voting system. We used an online voting page called poll4. This was an effective tool to allow everyone's vote to be counted up and recorded anonomously, and it was simple to use. The only problem occurred when we tried to keep the voting secret until Sharon & Carrie had given their comments, this was easily overcome by clearing the results and making sure no-one had voted before the screen was hidden. Overall this tool was a success in the context we wanted to use it for. I would use this with a class to allow children to share their ideas with the class without the fear of being judged by their peers. This could ensure the promotion of motivation and participation within lessons.
The overall process of movie making has been stressful but very rewarding. The final product is very impressive and along with the rest of my group I am very happy with it.
Wikis
We have been asked to create a wiki with our group to showcase the chosen subject area we have chosen (People Who Help Us). I am still to see the benefit of doing this but hopefully through the experience of creating the wiki and aiming it at the children (early years) I will change my mind and will see the educational benefit of them. I also plan to do some reading about how they can be used within an educational setting, hopefully both of these tasks combined will highlight the benefit and practicalities of using a wiki with a class.
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To help you with the educational value of wikis then look at how I used them as a place to break down the barriers of the classroom and share learning with a wider audience. More children can have their work placed on wikis than the limited walls in the school. More people can see them and they track what children create rather than be placed in a cupboard. Look at how I use wikis for VOTW - a place to share what we do with the world and connect children together.
Go to the VOTW wiki and look at my other ones listed on the site and you will get lots of ideas:
http://votw.wikispaces.com/
Yippee we won! :D
As you said, it was a stressful process but we got there in the end - with a great result! We worked well together as each member of the group contributed at each stage of the movie making. My next step is to research effective collaboration so maybe you could too?
Your point about motivation is really interesting, I agree that poll4 and a lot of the other tools we have used help motivate pupils into activities without fear of judgement.
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