Contributing+to+CORE+Units

Wiki Culture
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Wiki culture is all about collaboration or 'connected thinking.' This particular wiki encourages collaboration between teachers, between teachers and learners, but most importantly between learners. The main area for this educational **exchange** is the The Learning Bank. The Learning Bank is exactly what it is says it is. A bank or learning resource from which you are encouraged to make withdrawals from //but also deposits too//. When contributing to CORE learning pages please **utilise the template** provided and follow the themes presented. Please remember to watch the Wiki Charter movie before diving in.

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Interactive Wiki Tasks
= = Within a unit, the learning **CORE** should make direct reference to the __specification__, this can be achieved through a number of interactive activities; for example images, tasks, polls and quizzes. Use your imagination and creativity, you can add your learning ideas to the Wiki Teaching pages. The wiki Help pages are a great starting point to developing your ideas and construction skills within a wiki. Worried that you are going to mess things up? Then use SANDBOX 1 and SANDBOX 2 to test your wiki skills before posting.

What Information Can I Post?
Only post meaningful, relevant information. Always summarise information found on the internet and to link to it. Think, "What do I not understand about this topic?" and then to proceed to answer that question and post your findings. Only **delete** information with the consent of the author, by all means correct the text but do not over write. Always offer feedback sensitively. Use correct spelling and grammar in IM Learning sessions and discussion forums.

Resource Coding

 * NUMBERS should always appear in capitals. || **Essential** knowledge, terms learning skills should appear in **BOLD.** ||
 * __Important information is underlined.__ || Direct quotations appear in italics. ||

Basic
Add content relevent to the specification, collaborate. Set questions; direct questions, multiple choice, odd one out and true or false for example. More ideas can be found in the Appetisers, Activators and Quizzes page. Create links within the wiki and hyper links to external sites. Set discussions in the 'discussion tab';
 * 1) Open discussion - anyone can contribute in any order.
 * 2) Debate - assign students to a particular viewpoint. Eg for and against.
 * 3) Hotseat - the discussion runs through a nominanted 'expert.'
 * 4) Round Table - each person answers in order. (tough)
 * 5) Brainstorm - set a discussion to stimulate creativity and ideas.

Intermediate
Upload images or link images from other sites. Upload and embed or link videos from external sites such as [|googlevideo] and [|youtube]. eg [|wiki charter]. Upload files, doc, pdf, ppt, xls. Create [|polls] on which your students vote. Write basic quizzes using [|Blockbusters]and [|Wordsearch] to assess your learning. Use external sites to promote learning, eg [|bubble.us]

Advanced
Create slide shows to play in the wiki. (Save powerpoint slides as jpegs and create [|slide shows].) Include RSS feeds from sites to present current and up to date information. Create podcasts.

Signposted Resources

 * **Hard Copy** ||  || eg BTEC textbook EPI questionnaire. ||   || eg BBC Horizon - The England Patient. ||

Online resources should be hyper-linked to, hard copy resources can be uploaded but please be very selective.


 * M. Unit Criteria from the specification |||| D Criteria from the specification ||

Activities or suggested learning activities to help the learner work towards the higher grades.