Our Waterways Wiki Collaboration

Today I took my class on a field trip to test the health of the local Waimea River. It did not go as planned as the massive high tide kept pushing the fresh water up onto the bank and we coudn’t access all the interesting waterlife we wanted to find. We did have the chance to start work on our wiki when we got home which was great.

This photo of one of the groups working on their wiki page could well become one of my favourites. All children are so totally engaged in the collaborative process of adding their learning to their wiki page that they don’t notice that I am waving the camera about! Everyone working wirelessly together on the web to create on-line content about their learning. Just what 21st century learning is all about!

I entered our podcast/wiki/blog web links into a NZ Environmental Monitoring  and Actrion Project to win water monitoring equipment. They thought it good enough to put our links on their website which is encouraging.