My students began presenting their utopian (or dystopian?) projects (based on this UbD unit for Brave New World).
First of all, I think it was a fun project. The students worked hard on it, for the most part, but I think I gave them too much time. I noticed they got most of the work done the last two days. I think I was afraid that learning how to use wikis would take them longer than it actually did. Next time, I think I’ll make it a week-long project and leave it at that. Also, I think in the future that I’ll require the students to create wikis. I gave them more options this time, but I really liked the wiki format for constructing this project.
The students gave me permission to share their wikis with you.
- Woman World — a society completely run by and for the benefit of women.
- Utopian Experiment 211 A — a vision of a future run by psychology.
Two more groups will present on Monday when our class meets again.
Image credit: LGagnon.
[tags]utopia, brave new world, dystopia, project, writing, english, education, literature[/tags]
Thanks for sharing — looks like your students had a good time; those wikis are fun to explore.
I agree… what an excellent job yr kids did. I bet it was even more fun as their teacher. I REALLLLY enjoyed browsing the two presentations. Pls convey to your students that I have (also) been fortunate enough to instruct the best of the best and am not easily impressed. That's the only disadvantage that I can think of when a teacher is given the cream of the crop to teach.. you get ( I did, anyway) a little jaded because you (I) see sooooo many grand things.. but pls tell those students that this impressed (even) a person like myself.. who has seen sooooo many superior projects through the years. TREMENDOUS WORK… and vvvvvv interesting too
Best,
SL