Working with Wikis: Collaborative Writing in the 21st Century

International audience Students in primary schools have been asked to construct both written and multimodal texts for assessment purposes for many years. However these texts have been created on paper usually as individual project. This paper reports on a multiliteracies project involving students c...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zammit, Katina
Other Authors: School of Education, Western Sydney University, Nicholas Reynolds; Márta Turcsányi-Szabó
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2010
Subjects:
wikis
creating texts
multiliteracies
multimodal texts
primary
[INFO.INFO-DL]Computer Science [cs]/Digital Libraries [cs.DL]
Brisbane
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01054677
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01054677/document
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01054677/file/Zammit-KCKS.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15378-5_44
Description
Summary:International audience Students in primary schools have been asked to construct both written and multimodal texts for assessment purposes for many years. However these texts have been created on paper usually as individual project. This paper reports on a multiliteracies project involving students collaboratively creating a multimodal information report using the affordances of a wiki. Students found the experience very rewarding, rating the change to the process of learning, the content (Antarctica) and the use of technology as the best aspects. Working with wikis provided the opportunity for students to engage with 21st century literacy practices. It also provided a space in the classroom to trial changes to a conventional pedagogy, curriculum and assessment practices.

Similar Items