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School / Work Affiliation: Malcolm Public Schools

Website: http://web.me.com/mickifries

Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: twitter.com/mickfries

About Me: I teach high school science at Malcolm HS. Specifically: Earth, Chemistry, Physics, Forensics. I am looking for as many ways possible to get technology into my classroom for students' learning.

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Wiki Reflection/Goals

Posted on February 16, 2009 at 8:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

The wiki's went better today. Started the class out with a group brainstorm:

what do we know about handwriting analysis?

Why is it important in forensics?

Who are the people that do handwriting analysis?

Can we find some case studies where handwriting analysis helped to solve crimes?

We then delegated who wanted to post to the wiki about which topic. As they posted I checked each page and gave feedback about each student's wiki post (check spelling, put this… Continue

Wiki's in Class

Posted on February 16, 2009 at 12:45pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

This is the first blog I have entered..trying to be more active here.

I really want to start using wikis in some or all of my classes. I took the first step right before christmas and had some students create a meteorology wiki for a final project. There wasn't as much original thought as I had hoped for, but all in all it turned out okay.

Last week, I created a wiki for my forensics class to unite everything we do in there. I think this could be a great resource for… Continue

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At 1:04pm on February 16, 2009, doug mahoney said…: I am using the wiki for 7th grade computer. I do think it would be a valuable tool to introduce to teachers for a number of reasons.
What success have you had with the nene page? I want to start one of those as well for the 7th grade computer class.

At 10:25pm on December 25, 2008, Jack said…: Hi Micki! Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get Maine students involved. Please let me know. Thanks!