Here is the wiki I created:
http://comm9speech.pbworks.com/
I created it for the speech unit we do in my 9th grade class, and I decided it would be a good spot for students to share their ideas about how to give good speeches. It includes tips for researching, writing, and all kinds of stuff. I think this is great because kids may have ideas for how to memorize something, for example, that I've never thought of, and that may help another member of the class. They can give each other ideas outside of sitting in class. I think this is also way less daunting for kids. We already sort of talked about this, but the kid who doesn't want to raise his hand in class may be an awesome contributor on a wiki site.
The other part of my wiki is that I would take the groups for their radio show project and assign each of them a genre of radio show like mystery, comedy, drama, sci-fi, etc. Each group would then create a page for themselves and write a short description of each genre and its characteristics. Then the other groups can go and read about each one while deciding what they want to do for their own radio show.
Finally, I have a section for resources where kids can find examples of old radio shows. They can post links to websites that have audio files or scripts and things like that, and I think that would be a really good way to help all the students find good resources when planning their radio show.
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I like the idea of having students leave tips for each other. I'm thinking of doing something similar with my TV broadcast class because the students from one year graduate and leave nothing behind for the next year's students. And there are a lot of different tricks of the trade that I don't exactly teach - that I probably don't even know about that the students have discovered. It seems like a good way to create an ongoing legacy and sense of continued responsibility to the institution that is the class - know what I mean? As though they are part of something bigger than just this year's staff.
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