Chemistry+Wiki

Chemistry Wiki
Matt Wiliams Central York School District

**Blog Notes at Bottom**
USING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CHEMISTRY CLASSROOM

Matt Williams Central York High School

Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/

Example from AP Chemistry http://apchemcyhs.wikispaces.com/

Rubrics sites: http://rubrics4teachers.com/ http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

Example:

WIKI RUBRIC

CATEGORY 4 3 2 1 Comments CONTENT Covers topic in depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent. Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good. Includes essential information about the topic, but there are 1 or 2 factual errors. Content is minimal OR there are more than two factual errors

ORGANIZATION Content is well organized, using headings where necessary, or bulleted lists to group related material. Content uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of the topics appears flawed. Content is logically organized for the most part. No clear or logical organizational structure - just a lots of facts.

ATTRACTIVENESS Makes excellent use of pictures and/or graphics to enhance content. Makes excellent use of pictures and/or graphics to enhance content. Makes use of pictures/graphics, but occasionally these detract from the content. Does not make use of pictures and/or graphics to enhance content.

CONTRIBUTIONS Contributes greatly to the development of the class wiki. Contributes adequately to the class wiki. Contributes moderately to the class wiki. Contributes minimally to the development of the class wiki.

ACCURACY No misspellings or grammatical errors. All links work properly. No more than 3 misspellings and/or grammatical errors. No more than one non-working link. No more than 4 misspellings and/or grammatical errors. No more than two non-working links. More than 4 misspellings and/or grammatical errors. More than two non-working links or no links at all.

Delicious Bookkeeping Site http://del.icio.us/centralchemistry

__Blog Notes__:

Broke down the wiki into pages correlating to the chapters in his text book. Within those pages each student received/signed up for a particular topic. They were responsible to research and present info on their topic Also uses wiki as a place for students to write up labs and post pictures taken during lab experiments. The content is the key... stress this with your students! If the content is poor, its not worth doing. Using the wiki and having students share the work, you can move along faster. The burden is on the students to help each other learn.