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Welcome to the French Revolution Wikispace! The work included in the subsequent links is about the French Revolution and other revolutions around the world. The students working on the project are generally tenth graders that where given the task of updating a currently out of date resource that I had relied on for the last 7 years...... their textbook. The hope when I started this project was to have students create the beginnings of our online textbook. Essentially the students have been researching topics I have typically taught about in class and from there were asked to find information that is more relevant and interesting then what the textbook offers. Students have been given the option to create topics for information that is important and relevant to them. In fact, they added one catergry to this wikispace that will not be seen on the other classes wikispace on the same subject. For this first time, I wanted to have the classes do the project as individual classes so I would have a broader area to compare the two classes to see problems and errors with the execution of the project and what ultimately students learned from the project.

Essentially, the products you are about to see are from my experiment with this material and with an idea I got from Kristin Hokanson another CFF coach. Upon reflecting on the high and low points I've discovered a number of changes I plan on making to this project in the future, that I believe will help me in truly meeting my goal of making my classroom a Classroom for the Future. In the future, I plan on having similar classes work on the same wikispace rather than seperate classes doing seperate pages to make the project a community project. As I have seen a number of times students typed many paragraphs of information and by a simple tap on the mouse pad had all their information erased with no option to retrieve their hard work. Additionally, I'm going to make the project larger in scope as I have found many similarities between a number of the units that I do. To say the very least I'm very proud of this group as they have had to deal with a great deal of adversity in learning a new technology, being essentially g and in completing, as some students described, a very difficult project. To say the least I'm very proud of this class and my other two classes for all the hardwork they did on this project! I especially appreciate them taking this educational risk with me as I move into 21st century skills and learning! Thanks!