Technical Documentation

Member Roles:

  • Hannah-Team Leader: Take charge, keep everyone on task, push the team to our end results of this project, deciding factor if problems occur.
  • Mackenzie-Secretary/Janitor: Write everything down including ideas, questions, and push forward with any of the documentation parts of this project, go into the project and clean everything up.
  • Courtney-Tech Wiz: Look into the website, figuring out how it works, understanding the purpose of website and why it is important, then reporting back to the group with all information that is discovered.
  • Brian-Researcher: Research wikiversity and how it works and what it can be used for.

Team Goals:

  1. Designing product that is appealing
  2. Everyone participates and is involved
  3. We set dates within our own groups to make sure our project is underway
  4. Positive communication among all team members

Individual Goals:

Mackenzie

  1. Get better at Wikiversity
  2. Having a productive and friendly team experience
  3. Complete the project fast and correctly

Hannah:

  1. Understanding Open Commons learning
  2. Leading a team in a group project
  3. Understand Wikiversity and be able to tell someone how it works and why they should use it

Brian:

  1. Research Wikiviserity
  2. Put together a document with infomration all about Wikiversity
  3. Share information that is rathered with group members

Courtney:

  1. Understand the different ways to use Wikiversity & maybe implement it into my school work.
  2. Complete a project I am happy to present to the entire class.
  3. Gain a stronger understanding of Open Commons learning and how it can be implemented into everyday learning.

Conflict/Resolution/Workflow:

  • Team leader will make final decision if we can’t agree.
  • If someone can’t finish an assignment on time, they must ask for help instead of just not doing their work.

Unacceptable Work:

  • Not finishing your assigned task on time. -Not finishing your assigned task at all.
  • Having half done assignments.
  • Not communicating with the rest of the team member

 

First, go to Wikiversity and in the top right hand corner of the screen you will see a tab that says “Create Account.” Click it!!!

Wikiversity Account Step 1

Once you are on this page, enter in all the necesary information. I have added an example from my own account to help.

Wikiversity Account Step 2

Wikiversity Account Step 2 continued

After you have entered in all of the information and clicked “Create Account” on the bottom, you will be brought back to the main screen. The tabs located on the top right hand of the screen will be different. Press the tab that says “Sandbox.”

Wikiversity Account Step 3

Here is your work space. In this big box you will enter all of the information you and your group have come up with. This includes, but is not limited to text, pictures, links, etc.

Wikiversity Account Step 4

YOU ARE ALL PERMITTED TO HAVE YOUR OWN WIKIVERSITY ACCOUNTS.

With this being said, it is crusial that you take time outside of class to collect information on your topic. You will have time in class for groups to work together and organize all of the data on to one sandbox.

 

 

Lesson Plan

Date: October 17- October 21                      Topic: Culture                                    Grade Level: 6,7,8

Standards/Benchmarks:

Content/Objectives:SWBAT:

  • Design and create a Wikiversity page on a specific culture
  • Describe: politics, festivities, food,
  • Explain why knowing different cultures is important in today’s society

Vocabulary Focus:

  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
  • Credible Information

Activities:

  • Teacher asks the students about culture and what all the different parts of culture there are and makes a list on board.
  • The teacher will then place the students into small groups.
  • Each group chooses which section they would like to complete from the board.
  • The small groups will begin to look for credible information from credible sources to use for their section.
  • Once the research is done, all the groups will partner up doing a group review to look over what the other groups have so far and make sure they are on the right track.
  • The groups will then type up the section they have on the culture and put it on the class Wikiversity page that has been made for the culture they are working on.
  • Each group must incorporate: pictures, links, credible information and valid sources
  • Once every group has completed their section and it is uploaded to the class Wikiversity page the teacher will push the page out to go “live” where other viewers will be able to see the work they have accomplished.

Closure:

  • Have the students write why they think learning about other cultures in today’s society is important on a sticky note and then place it on the board. Read one or two of the sticky notes aloud and make sure the class completely understands why it is important to know other cultures besides their own.

Materials:

  • Computer, iPad, iPhone and access to the internet

Resources:

  • Wikiversity
  • Wikibooks
  • Wikipedia
  • Any other website, book, pictures, etc. that is credible
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