Reuven+Werber

Later on in the year we used wikis for our other 10th grade EFL classes to showcase their matriculation reports with teacher reviews - http://movers-and-shakers .wikispaces.com/ and our 9th graders did a Hebrew language research project on key figures of Zionist history - http://zionist-greats.wikispace s.com/ This year (2007-8) we have begun a wiki based collaboration with The [|Weber School] in Atlanta, GA based on the Faces Around Us. http://israel-faces.wikispaces.com/ and http://weberwriters.wikispaces.com/. Our tenth graders have also begun work on publishing The "NC Parsha Wiki" a collection of personal articles on the weekly Torah readings of the synagogue based on material published on the web. (in Hebrew)
 * __Name__:** Reuven Werber
 * __Website__:** [|http://classroom20.ning.com /profile/reuvenwe] [|http://www.big6.com/showbio .php?id=34]
 * __Educational Institution__:** Neveh Channah Girls High School - Etzion Boc, Israel ([|http://www.nevnet.etzion.k12.il]),Department of Information Science - Bar-Ilan University - PhD. candidate
 * __Teaching Environment__:** High School - grades 9-12
 * __Web 2.0 Focus__:** Wikis
 * __Description__:** We used wikis for a number of projects last year. We started by running our collaborative learning project with Sharon Peters' 9th grade Lower Canada College English class. Our tenth grade English class studied literature about Jerusalem and did research reports about various aspects of Jerusalem (history, archeology, geography, etc.) which were part of our students EFL matriculation projects. Our teachers provided formative assessment to our students on the discussion area of the wiki to coach the writing process. Sharon's students provided extremely helpful peer reviews for each of our students reports and raised a number of questions about the reports. This served as the basis for discussion and editing the report pieces. Sharon's students provided discussion and information about a few pieces of Canadian literature. In addition, the wikis housed video clips about our trip to Jerusalem and class discussions from LCC. See: http://jerusalem.wikispaces .com/ and http://montreal.wikispaces.com/ - This project was awarded the second place ISTE 2007 SIGtel Online Learning Award - [|http://www.iste.org/Content /NavigationMenu/Membership /SIGs/SIGTel_Telelearning_ /SIGTel_Online_Learning_Award /200710/2007_SIGTel_OLA _Winners.htm]
 * __Teaching and Learning__:** Working on the wiki environment allows students to publish and share their work with peers across the street and across the globe - getting feedback and exchange based on their work. Karen Guth,the tenth grade English teacher at Neveh Channah who ran collaborative literature project at our end, wrote: "I would say that this became a project that engaged the minds, skills, and hearts of our students. It turned the English Bagrut (matriculation) project into an international research, writing, thinking, and teaching opportunity."
 * __Preferred Applications__:** Wikispaces - Very user friendly and intuitive (Wysiwyg interface)- provide excellent support
 * __Mentor(s) and Hero(es)__:** I participated in an online wiki workshop run by Vicki Davis in which I collaborated with Julie Lindsay on creating a page on "citzen journalism"
 * __Favorite Web 2.0 Applications Right Now__:** Exploring http://rafi.ki/ - a very cool educational "safe" social network, providing a flash-based environment for global communication. Recently, I have been taking part in the establishment of a social network of Israeli teachers, interested in furthering the use of web 2.0 technology in Israeli education - [|Edureshet].