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Wikis
What’s a wiki? According to Wikipedia: “ A wiki is a page or collection of Web
pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify
content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often
used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The
collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.
Wikis are used in business to provide intranets and Knowledge
Management systems. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki software,
WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that
could possibly work".
"Wiki" (/wi?ki?/) is originally a
Hawaiian word for "fast."
IMPORTANT: Each team will have their own private
wiki. Nobody but the members and Mr. Ling will have Internet access
to this wiki. Members of the wiki must adhere to all rules in the
Responsible Use Policy of BSHS. No member is permitted to
invite anyone outside the team to view or join the
wiki. Students will not interact with any team wiki other than
their own, using the account assigned by their teacher.
Failure to adhere to these
rules, including inappropriate posts or attempting to enter a wiki using
an alternate account, will certainly result in loss of computer and account
access. Such loss of access is, at the very least, likely
to impact your grade for this course.
Click here to check out the new
Internet Help page for Wiki Technical Difficulties!
Textbook on T Drive
Textbook at
danling.com/earthling
LINKS TO NATURAL DISASTERS TEAM
WIKIS
UNIT
3: Geologic Hazards
To get to your wiki, the
URL is: YOURTEAMNAME.pbworks.com. For example, if your team is GeoHaz4, then you would
type geohaz4.pbworks.com into the address bar. You'll also
find links
to your wikis below.
Earthquakes, Ch. 2
Teams 1,
7, 13 :
Earthquakes, Ch. 2, from the beginning through 2.2 (pp.
30-42)
Teams 2, 8, 14 :
Earthquakes, Ch. 2, from 2.3 through end (pp.
43-71)
Earthquake Team Problems
Text Chapter
2: Earthquakes - download from website
Earthquake
Graphics
Tsunamis, Ch. 3
Teams 3, 9, 15 :
Tsunamis, Ch. 3, from the beginning through 3.2 (pp. 72-83)
Teams 4,
10, 16 :
Tsunamis, Ch. 3, from 3.3 through end (pp. 83-95)
Tsunami Team
Problems
Text Chapter 3: Tsunamis - download from website
Tsunami
Graphics
Volcanoes, Ch. 4
Teams 5,
11, 17 :
Volcanoes, Ch. 4, from the beginning through 4.3 (pp. 96 -
122)
Teams 6,
12, 18
: Volcanoes,
Ch. 4, from 4.4 to end (pp. 122 -
133)
Volcano Team
Problems
Text Chapter 4: Volcanoes - download from website
Volcano
Graphics
UNIT 4: Severe Weather &
Climate
Flooding, Chapter
5
Teams 1,
7, 13 :
Flooding, Ch. 5, from the beginning through 5.6 (pp.
134-161)
Teams 2,
8, 14 :
Flooding, Ch. 5, from 5.7 through end (pp.
161-172)
Flooding Team
Problems
Text Chapter 5: Flooding -
download from website
Flooding
Graphics
Atmosphere and Severe Weather, Chapter
8
Teams 3,
9, 15 : Atmosphere and Severe Weather, Ch.
8, from the beginning through Hail (pp. 236-8, 248-254; Questions 1-29)
Teams 4,
10, 16 : Atmosphere and Severe Weather,
Ch. 8, from Tornadoes through (pp. 254-264; Questions 30-56)
Teams 5,
11, 17 : Atmosphere and
Severe Weather, Ch. 8, from Heatwaves through end (pp. 264-275; Questions
57-81)
Atmosphere
and Severe Weather Team Problems
Text Chapter 8:
Atmosphere And Severe Weather - download from
website
Atmosphere
And Severe Weather Graphics
Hurricanes, Coastlines, Climate
Change and Wildfires, Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12
Teams 6,
12, 18
: Hurricanes, Coastlines, Climate Change, Wildfires,
Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12
Hurricanes,
Coastlines, Climate Change and Wildfires Team Problems
Text Chapter
9: Hurricanes and Extratropical Cyclones
Hurricanes
and Extratropical Cyclones Graphics
Text Chapter 10:
Waves, Currents and Coastlines
Waves,
Currents and Coastlines Graphics
Text Chapter 11: Climate
and Climate Change
Climate
and Climate Change Graphics
Text Chapter 12: Wildfires
Wildfires
Graphics
A TYPICAL WIKI PROJECT -
5 days to prepare and one day to present
DAY 1 - Classroom
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Each team will be assigned a topic with subtopics and problems to guide
their research. These will be handed
out to the class and posted at each team's
wiki Frontpage. The Unit Test will be based on these
problems.
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Each team member will be given their wiki
Username and Password. Don't lose it!
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The team meets
in the classroom. The team's first
task is to decide who will do what part of the
project. Each team member will be responsible for
producing a website-based presentation on certain
questions. The web pages created must answer all the
questions clearly, and for a good grade, should go beyond
simply answering the questions to making the page(s) interesting, fun,
or especially interactive (having links to
cool stuff is perfect). Eventually, the topic must be
presented in the same order as the questions appear in the handout. In other words the beginning
of your team's presentation will start with the first question, team members
will present in order, and the last team member to present will
have worked on the last questions from the handout. A great place to start
is to ask each team member which questions
they'd like to work on.
The plan also should not be changed
along the way unless there is no other way to proceed.
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The next part of this step
is to set realistic time goals for each step of the project. The
general timeline should be established first, then specific dates for
each stage of completion. Use the steps here (DAY 1, DAY
2, etc.) as a flexible guide.
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Each team's Frontpage should have the team member's
names along with the topics and/or questions each member is working
on. These topics should be linked to the pages each member
creates, so that all pages are accessible from the Frontpage. In
other words, if we click on your name or topic, it should bring us to your
work. Each team member's presentation should begin at the team's Frontpage. It's a good idea to
use the Sidebar area of the web pages to keep track of which
topics / questions each team
member is doing. Team members should use the Comments section at the bottom of the
Frontpage to communicate with each other and the instructor. Teams could also use
the sidebar to keep track of good links to useful websites,
or whatever else the team would like to keep
track of.
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Research should begin with the textbook. Answers to questions should be written into the
handout by hand during class, and some
can be entered into new web pages / documents / presentations, but
the main goal is to begin by seeing what is available in
the Natural Disasters text (and in some cases, the Earth Science text
also).
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The team should also begin searching for other
sources of information online. These sources should be cited
somewhere on the web pages, either embedded within the page where the
information appears, or together at the bottom like a
bibliography. These citations of web pages or
documents should be hyperlinks
to the original
pages, or
to complete pdf documents created from the original articles. Please take
a look at the articles posted here at Earthling as sources you
can use. Each web page should hyperlink to, or refer to, at least 4
sources, including the text. If hyperlinking isn't possible (such as with a library
text), the full bibliographic reference should be included at the bottom of
the page.
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Each student must create their own web
page, either as a complete presentation, or as a starting point with links to their other pdf
or pps files. For assistance with creating movies, powerpoints, or pdf documents
that will work on the web, click on the Net Help page at
Earthling.
DAY 2 - Computer Lab
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If
you haven't found basic answers to all your assigned questions, do that
first. Write your answers into your question handout. Then
continue the above work. Don't forget to use
the
textbook as a
source.
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All students must create their own web
page. Individual student presentations can
consist of just a wiki / web page, or can include links to original
(student-made) powerpoints, movies, pdfs, etc. Part of a
presentation may include interactions with existing web pages,
where a student can demonstrate an online resource. To start
a web page, log in to your team's Frontpage, and click on "Create a
page." Give your web page a name, but keep in mind that this name
cannot be changed later. Type a title or something at the top of
your new web page, then click on the "Save" button at the bottom.
Now would be a good time to create a link to your new page from the
team's Frontpage. To do this, go to the Frontpage by clicking Wiki
(or your team's page name) at the upper left. Click "Edit," type
your new page's title
to the right of your name, highlight the
title and / or your name, then click the name of your page
on the right side of the window under "Insert Links." Don't forget
to save!
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Please use a large
font on your wiki page (ex: 18 - 24 pt), to make your presentation
legible.
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Again, your wiki page must include at least 4 citations, including live
hyperlinks to your Internet sources.
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The Web / Presentation
Scoring Sheet
I will use to grade your presentation
is posted at Earthling. Your work MUST be
presented. If you ask someone else to do your presentation, it will impact
your grade negatively (-10/100 points). No extra credit will be given to
the presenter.
DAY 3 - Computer Lab
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Continue researching your
topic, creating your
web page(s), pps,
pdf or wmf files.
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By now, there should be links to each wiki from the wiki Frontpage,
and to each file from a wiki page.
DAY 4 - Computer Lab
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The team should be finishing up the wikis
and presentation files, and present them clearly on the team's wiki frontpage with links to
them. You will only have about 30-45 minutes to
work on the wiki next time.
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Your pages should have
relevant graphics with text explaining them. Great graphics can be
found in the links on this page (above) for each
topic.
Last Day - Computer Lab
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The team should finish all work on the wikis during the
30-45 minutes of this class.
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DAY 6 - Begin
presentations.
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Two teams will present each day (30 minutes for
each team for presentations and Q &
A).
SUMMARY
EACH STUDENT WILL:
- work cooperatively and collaboratively
with an assigned team
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use a team wiki
to collaborate on group projects with their team and teacher
- research the subtopics
and questions their team has assigned
them
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find at least 4 valid
science sources for their references
page, including the text
- create their
own wiki page which will analyze and summarize their research, and
be their presentation to the class
- this page will
include their reference page of articles in the MLA format, with
hypertext links to the original Internet sources or uploaded
documents. This reference page will be included at the end of
their student wiki page
- this page will
contain links to any of the student's other
documents, including powerpoint presentations, self-made videos,
etc.
- present
their work to the class through the team wiki
- upload and link to all files through their own wiki page.
EACH TEAM WILL:
- work collaboratively on each
project
- create a job list of who’s doing what,
when
on the wiki Frontpage
-
meet regularly to read and go over each member’s work. Better: this can be done via the Comments
and Sidebar.
- complete a Self-Assessment of each
member’s work at the end of
the project
- present their work and
answer questions from the class in 30 minutes
PROJECT PARTS
- team wiki Frontpage
with team plan to organize (who's doing what by when) and finally,
present the project
- individual team member
wikis
- student research, references, wiki, presentations
- all wikis will contain hyperlinked articles,
documents, files, presentations
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS to be answered for
each unit:
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What are the main types
and features of these hazards?
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What are the main
hazards and costs associated with these events?
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Can these events be
predicted?
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What happens before,
during and after these events?
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Where, when, why and
how do these hazards form and develop?
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How have these hazards
affected humans and other life on Earth?
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What has happened
during historic events?
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What are the
probabilities of impacts of various magnitudes?
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How do we determine
risk for an area?
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How are these events
linked with other natural hazards?
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How do humans affect
the frequency or magnitude of these hazards?
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How can these hazards
be minimized?
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What can people do to
prepare?
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What does everyone need
to know about what to do during this type of event?
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How do we, and how
should we, respond to this type of
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