Name
Create a Wikipedia entry
Topic
culture and language
Learning time
9 hours and 30 minutes
Designed time
9 hours and 30 minutes
Size of class
24
Description
At the end of the activity students have to publish a Wikipedia entry about "Bologna's arcades" both in Italian and in Spanish
Aims
Getting to know more about history and culture of their own town Getting to know how to work on Wikipedia Getting familiar with html code Effectively collaborate in groups
Outcomes
Knowledge, Application, Evaluation
Editor
elenapezzi
Edit
Brainstorming
45 minutes)
  • Discuss
    10
    4
    0
    Discuss in 6 groups about the entry to write on Wikipedia. It should be something related to the town where they live and it has not to be present in Wikipedia (they will browse with tablets to see what is in)
  • Discuss
    15
    25
    0
    The whole class decide among the different proposals: at the end they decide to write two different entries about the same topic, Bologna's arcades. One entry will be in Italian, the other one in Spanish.
  • Produce
    20
    24
    0
    The whole group and the teacher negotiate the assessment criteria to evaluate the work: we agree about both product and process assessment criteria. The result is a shared rubric which will be used at the end of the whole activity.
Notes:
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Group work
300 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    120
    4
    0
    We will form 6 groups of 4 people. Each group is responsible of a piece of work. They have to read the documents already published about Bologna's arcades, most of all those on the Internet.
  • Investigate
    60
    4
    0
    After reading the texts about their topic, thay have to search for the most valid and appropriate ones to sort out the most relevant information.
  • Collaborate
    120
    4
    0
    At this stage, the groups have to collaborate together to decide who will write down the information, in which order and to what extent. On their tablets they will write a first text in their "sandbox" and put the right pictures
Notes:
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Final activities
225 minutes)
  • Discuss
    45
    24
    0
    All the groups have access to each group's sandbox. They read all the texts produced and see the photos. At the end the whole group decide the final version of both texts (the Italian and the Spanish one)
  • Produce
    120
    4
    0
    Again divided into 6 groups, the students produce the final text to be published on Wikipedia. They pass it from the sandbox to the official page and pay attention to the formal rules of publishing according to what they have learnt in the specific pages. They also insert the pictures and give the right layout to the page.
  • Produce
    30
    24
    0
    The final product is linked into the school official site and the results are shown to parents, school headteacher, teachers and other students. Here you can see the real entries: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portici_di_Bologna https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3rticos_de_Bolonia
  • Discuss
    30
    24
    0
    One member from each group and the teacher assess the work of each other group using the rubric created at the beginning of the activity.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0

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