Sharon Tonner is a class act from the High School of Dundee who has seriously got into using wikis and blogs to motivate her students and improve their communication with each other. The RadioHigh wiki is just a perfect example of how one social software (the wiki) plays into the production of another (a podcast) by the students. That wiki is just stuffed with student opinion and scripting, clearly produced both during and outside the school day. Talk about breaking down the barriers of the classroom!
The juniors at the High School have created the first science example I've seen of wiki use (I know there must be others, but I haven't spotted them - tell me about them here in the comments).
But the pièce de resistance is the teacher-student dialogues taking place over on the RadioHigh blog. Mrs Tonner takes questions from the students and asks her own, plays with the tools in front of her class (virtually) before they do the same. Best of all, she publicises her work with emails to her friends and through promotional blog posts, written by the kids (this one has 11 comments, including students' ideas for what comes in the next show).
This is one of the best examples I've seen in a while - why not take a look and leave a comment yourself?
* For anyone unaware of the Scots tongue, we can say 'hunners' for 'hundreds' and therefore, for the purposes of this blog, 'tonners' for 'thousands'. A bit of bloggers' licence never hurt anyone...
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