2nd Generation Web Learning (Web 2.0)
As well as contributing to the Southcity Christian School website Room Two will have two other places, (a wiki and a blog,) online where it can share its learning with parents, other invited quests and, to some degree, the rest of the world.
www.southcity.school.nz is the school website (which you are currently in) and its major purpose is to share information with parents and the wider community. Most information is accessible by everyone however most of the student work on this site is private and viewable by parents with a password. This site is formal and should be kept to a high standard. Student work on here is 'published' work so it should meet high expectations in terms of punctuation and grammar, although we all make mistakes.
http://southcitybloggers.edublogs.org/ is our class blog. Room Two will be using this to reflect on its learning and to challenge each other's ideas and thinking. In March we will be participating in the BloggerChallenge against 1000s of students from dozens of other countries. A blog is a shared/co-constructed space and as such it is always a work in progress so we can not expect perfection. The emphasis is on thinking and engaging with others rather than getting all the technical aspects of English right. Having said that, sloppy contributions or very informal contributions are not accpetable. This is a school environment not a social networking site.
From Term Two onwards students who show enthusiasm and committment to the principles and rules of blogging that we set up will have the opportunity, with the permission of parents, to gain a blogging license which allows them to establish their own blog site.
http://southcitydigiroom.wikispaces.com/ is yet to be constructed but it is another place where Room One students will work on joint projects together. It will be a team effort. It is collarborative. Everyone will have different skills to contribute and it too will be a work in progress. Again we can not expect perfection and having a go and taking (learning) risks is emphasised.
website and learning management system.