Friday, September 29, 2006

Proj #4 - Activities for Fri, Sep 29

Project # 4—Wikis
This is a project that focuses on writing and the MYP Design Folder.

Find a topic about which you are knowledgeable. It needs to be an area about which there is relatively large audience of interest. Investigate various wikis, and find one to which you can add an entry. (There are many other possibilities besides Wikipedia.) Get an account for that wiki. Research your topic, write a draft of your entry and post your entry on the wiki. Learn how to format your entry properly. Track changes to your entry.

Document your work in your blog. Keep a design folder for this project in your blog. Each post should have “Project #4” and the section of the design folder in the title to make it easy to identify (e.g. Project #4 Investigate). Proper spelling and clear writing style are important. Your blog should have five posts for the design folder (one each for investigate, design, plan, create, and evaluate). Refer to the MYP descriptors to understand what is expected in each section. The project will be evaluated based on the MYP technology rubric.

The project is due on October 11.
  1. Discuss the project.
  2. The focus is on writing and the Design Folder
  3. Group discussion to begin identifying a topic. Everyone should have two or three possibilities.
  4. All students to research and find a wiki that is appropriate to the type of topic that they will write on.
  5. Work on computer to begin the Design section of the DF.
HW: Pick your topic and make an entry in your blog describing it.

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