Studies+of+Religion

=Using ICT in teaching Studies of Religion=

TRACCHS11 my year 11 wiki is a new site I am setting up this year (2011). We are using the wiki as our teaching environment or virtual classroom. Each week or fortnight the lesson "plan" is posted with instructions for students. Students join wikispaces and use the discussion tab on each topic page to post written reflective or research responses, questions and dialogue with each other and me. Students can contribute links or content to pages, and I find that year 11 students are mature enough to use this feature sensibly. Students also have access to our text online through pearson places(the online portal for pearson press). There is a context sensitive link on each page to the relevant chapter of the text. This is different from how I use my year 7 science wiki where the wiki is not editable by students because several years of experience has shown that younger students tend to mess around with pages and spend lots of time messaging each other with inanities. There we use the wiki as an adjunct to class work and as a net portal to things we want to do on the web. David Willsher (The Riverina Anglican College, NSW)
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