Wednesday, September 10, 2008

week 7 Thing #16 & #17


WIKI WIKI WIKI We are using wiki spaces for our high school research pathfinders. Students seem to like the easy access to resources for their specific research projects. After teachers conference with us about their students' assignments we put together the best resources we have to offer - books, searching suggestions/directions, databases, citation machine link ect-all on one page. Students can click on the database they want to use and get there quickly. By using research pathfinders, students are Googling less and are getting quality information from the databases. We added the cover images to our title suggestions. There is nothing like a visual to aid a student in finding a book. Students can get to the wiki research pathfinders from a link that was added to our library's home page. I am in the process of developing a WIKI to promote PYRCA at our high school. I am planning on placing the list of nominees and rules of how to vote plus enable online voting ( I am still checking into the online voting). Hopefully this will be a hook to get high school students to participate in this awesome reading program. Wish me luck.
I tried adding to the Pa Curriculum Connection wiki but the password is just not working.

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