| Title of the scenario | Villa Mimmi – portraying fellow humans using a wiki |
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| Keywords describing the topic of the scenario | storytelling, apartment house, tenants, portraying your fellow humans |
Application in educational context Has this learning scenario already been practiced in lessons? Give examples of the learning scenario in use: - Add a reference link. It could be a reference to the performed lesson or a an evaluation of the performed lesson
- Name of school or institution?
- Number of students?
- Relevant contact persons
| - Reference link to lesson: Villa Mimmi (google translated).
- Number of students: 23
- Relevant contact person: The teacher Sandra Wisting, sandra.wissting@nacka.se
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Targeted educational sector:- primary and secondary education
- higher education
- professional training
- adult training
| primary and secondary education |
Learners' special characteristics e.g. students:- who are deaf
- from rural areas
- detached from the labor market
- with exquisite digital skills
| None |
| Learning subject/ field e.g. | - languages
- psychology
- art
- drama
- ICT
- citizenship
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Specific educational objectives e.g. make students acquire:- writing skills
- basic knowledge on Roman toponyms and the Celtic culture
- source criticism
- cooperation skills
| Learn students:- drama & storytelling
- writing & formulation skills
- empathy and understanding of other fellow humans when writing portraits describing the tenants
- how to give feedback and seek consensus about wiki content among fellow students
- art & how to draw a portrait (either by hand or with aid of graphics software)
- wiki skills (adding, changing, commenting, uploading etc)
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| Narrative/sequential description of the learning activities (Important! Could be a longer text) | Villa Mimmi (google translated):- Prepare a wiki site:
- Either use a wiki farm or use a stand-alone wiki.
- On the front page, describe a rental house with the same number of tenants as number of students in class. Take care to make the description of the house vivid and add at least one relevant image.
- Add all students as users (unless you want to let them do it themselves. The user names need not be the students real names. However it is probably good that you, as a teacher, know who is who)
- List the student tasks which should be carried out on the wiki:
- Describe a place. There is a framed photo on the wall of your tenant's apartment. Photo shows a place that he or she thinks a lot about. Describe the site! Where is it? Why is this place special? Remember that your story will get us interested in the site.
- Describe a typical day. What does your tenant do an ordinary day? Work? Hobbies? Dreams?
- Describe the apartment. How big is it? How is it furnished? How does the balcony look like? How has your tenant put his personal imprint on the apartment?
- Draw a picture of your tenant. Put it next to the personal description of your tenant. Alternatives:
- Picture by hand – photo or scan the picture – upload it
- Picture with aid of graphics software – save the picture – upload it
- Write a letter. In a drawer, well hidden, is a letter that your tenant had long ago. The sender was someone who meant a lot to your tenant. What the letter said? Write it!
- Extratasks:
- Your tenant is secretly in love with one of the other tenants! Who then? What is your tenant like about this person?
- Your tenant find it scary to go down in the laundry room. Why? What has happened? Write and tell us.
- Your tenant knows a secret about one of the other tenants! Who carries the dark secrets and what is it ...?
- This summer your tenant goes on a holiday that he or she is looking forward to for a long time. Where does he/she go? With whom? What will they do?
- The hammers and pounds from below the basement and your tenant can not sleep at night ... What's going on down there anyway?
- Your tenant spends his best day in life with one of his best friends! Tell me about that day. What do they do? Where are they?
- Insert a photo from Flickr or Wikimedia Commons depicting a place that is important for your tenant. Insert the image adjacent to the text.
- Insert a video from YouTube or Wikimedia Commons where you can watch and listen to your tenant's favorite artist.
- Make a link to your tenant's favorite site!
- Add an example of a tenant which your students can be inspired by
- Present the wiki site and demonstrate briefly how it works. A short instruction film (like this one) could be useful.
- Let the students write about their tenants
- Have a discussion on how to give feedback in a constructive way. Then, let students read and comment others tenants.
- Finally, you, as a teacher write a short evaluation about every portrait.
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Learning resources involved e.g.- books
- online resource like wiki site to acquire knowledge from, e.g.
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- Flickr
- Ekopedia
- JurisPedia
- search engines
| - Dictionary/Thesaurus
- Wikimedia Commons
- Flickr
- YouTube
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Wiki application to create content (not to confuse with "Learning resources involved") Which wiki software do the students use to create content, that is, writing and collaborating? Wiki software could for example mean:- Stand-alone wiki application like:
- MediaWiki (which is used for Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wiktionary etc)
- DokuWiki
- FosWiki
- XWiki
- Wikifarm application like:
- Wikispaces
- PBWorks
- Wikidot
- Referata
- Wikia
Clarification: wiki application versus wiki online learning resource You can use Wikipedia both as a learning resource to aquire knowledge from, but also as a working tool where you do your assignment (if students have user accounts on Wikipedia and the assignment for example is to improve articles on Wikipedia). Then Wikipedia is the learning resource and MediaWiki (which Wikipedia is built upon) is used as a wiki application to create content. Another option is to use Wikipedia as a learning resource but for example Wikispaces as a working tool for the class where they report their findings about Wikipedia. Then Wikipedia is the learning resource and Wikispaces is used as a wiki application to create content. | Either use a wiki farm or a stand-alone wiki. Villa Mimmi has previously been performed with Wikispaces. |
Other ICT applications involved e.g. standard computing programs like- spreadsheets
- graphics software
| Incscape, a free software graphics editor (similar to Adobe Illustrator) |
Infrastructure / equipment e.g.- Internet connection
- microphone
- camera
| If the graphics software is not used, you need a camera or a scanner to digitize your illustration. |
Prerequisite competences e.g. to be familiar with- English writing
- linear algebra
| None |
Evaluation approach e.g.- peer-to-peer assessment
- test (teacher evaluate)
- revision tracking
- group assessment
| - peer-to-peer assessment (comment or possibly change others tenant descriptions)
- teacher evaluation of tenant description
- group assessment where students together discuss how they liked the task, what was easy and what was difficult
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Typical learning time e.g.- How many sessions?
- How long sessions?
| - Five sessions
- One hour per session
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Typical learning location e.g.- Classroom with computers
- Classroom without computers
- Outside the classroom. Where?
- At home
| Wherever the student has access to internet connection. However, the first sessions should perhaps be performed together with the teacher. If there is short of computers, the class can be divided so that one part of the class do portraits by hand of their tenants while the others write in the wiki. |
| Other aspects to consider | None |
| Opportunities and obstacles identified during the implementation of the scenario | Will see. |
