7+-+WIKI+ASSESSMENT


 * WIKI ASSESSMENT Now that the schoolyear is almost over, it's high time we do some assessment.So, I would like you all to 1. evaluate our Wiki as a teaching / learning tool, pointing out its advantages and disadvantages and what could be done to improve it;2. assess your participation on the WIKI, commenting on your personal participation, its positive and negative points. DEADLINE: 7th JUNE **

1. Honestly I thought the project wiki fabulous. It is the missing dynamic between a student and a discipline. Thus we are able to do research and even "study at home." The wiki is very well built both by the interaction of the students as part of the teacher. Congratulations and thank you for the work.2. On my part could have been more active in the wiki. The wiki helped me a lot in terms of writing, doing research for new words and their definitions.Thanks teacher. Kisses Miguel Martins 11ºA I see this project as a quite interesting and helpful learning tool, as we are given the chance to improve our english skills a lot. For those who enjoy writing very much, like me, it's simply great, because not only do we express our personal opinions in a way that pleases us hugely but we also reach higher standards in speaking terms as we get lots of new and different vocabulary and fluency. Wiki is, indeed full of varied and captivating themes, information and specific cases related to what we study in class. Therefore, it also contributes to our culture enlargement, which is extremely important nowadays since we get bombarded with so much intelectual challenges. In what concerns to its visual part I can say it was well achieved: the colors are atractive, it's spontaneous, cosy and warm, it's teacher's style ;). Finally, regarding my own participation I'd like to have been more active but I tried to take a part in all the subjects that interested me the most and to grow as a student taking advantage of everything that Wiki has to offer. So, I have to thank you a lot as well, Mrs. Costa! Vitória Melo 11D ** OK, Vitória. You managed to point out some of the Wiki advantages. Nicely writen too :)) Ana ** This Wiki's creation was one of your best decisions. All the work here was really profitabl e and I truly enjoyed it. You should repeat it next year.  Almeida, 11th A  ** Next year I hope we're able to improve some points really and aim at a higher level. Ana ** Wiki was a very interesting project. I had no idea how can be fun to participate and share our opinions. Like it has been said, wiki really improve our writing skills. I did researches about themes that were spoken on the posts so wiki definitely had a positive impact. And it's an easy way to improve our marks. I liked very much working here. Thanks for everything teacher! As for my participation, I think it was good, I think I was active on the pages. Cátia Borrego ** ﻿I agree with you Cátia. It was obviously funny to be involved in this project. Ana ** Well I would like to begin or end this term by pledging an anthom "Some work and find luck, some just live and stumble upon it" For whatever reason I believe that this quote I just made up and it turned out great XD would fit our English year like a glove, a white glove,with which I would dare to hit our teacher Ana Costa so that she is encouraged to maintain and to develop this outer-class space for students to break their routines. The only negative I would like to point out is that not all of us have the habbits of checking their mails or come regurlarly to the computer so try not to post importtant messages only in here please. Nonetheless I just love you and I guess I'm sorry to say a goodbye and a Good Joob like you do XD Guiilherme Fiuza ** And how would you suggest I should post important messages? I thought teens were supposed to be always on the net :)) Why aren't you? Ana **** Hi, Fiuza! It's me again... I just called/wrote to say SORRY!!!... You're right... I haven't commented on your incredibly well written text, on your extremely nice words in relation to me and my WIKI work, on your amazing quote ... I'll simply have to get down on my knees and ask for forgiveness. Will you forgive me? :(( ANA ** I would like to congratulate the teacher because of making such interesting project. The Wiki project is a really good idea and a excelent tool to captivate the students and a different way to teach the Units and Themes without being to boring. It improves our writing skills, we could share our points of view and learn from the others. I would like to congratulate the students who made the wiki such a great space, a place where we could learn a lot due to the knowledge of them. I think I had an active participation, I tried to write and participate as long as I could. I learned a lot from the other students. The only negative point is: sometimes we hadn't time to come to the wiki, like the tests time is very difficult to us so we spend lots of time without participating. Thanks a lot, teacher and everyone who made this Wiki simply amazing :) Rita Pinto ** OK Rita, You mentioned the fantastic role played by your schoolmates. YEAH! We couldn't have done it without them. As for the lack of time, it's really a problem but how can we go around it? Do you have any suggestions? ANA ** I really enjoyed working on wiki. this activity make us contribute to english classes at home in order to improve our marks. Besides that it was a fun and creative way to grab students attention and enthusiasm! As some of my colleagues said I learned a lot from their opinions and I expanded my way of thinking most of the times! It was a project with humor, discussions and knowledge! Congratilations, teacher! ﻿﻿Mariana11thA Wiki is a diffrente way for us connect in English with each other. With this site we could share opinions that usually we don´t share, and also with people that are from different classes which mades us have more ideas based on other people's opinions. And we had the opportunity to improve our English too. So, I wrote all this to tell you that I really liked this idea and you should continue with this next year with your new students :) ﻿ ﻿INÊS SOUSA 11B These 2years the English classes were amazing. Especially the wiki. With the wiki we discussed as a team and I'd like to point out that if it didn’t exist, we would never have thought about that. It is agood way to put new technology in a life of a students. Wiki is one way of connecting the world with our English classes I love it. And I hope that this idea remains for the next students. :) Diogo Telo 11B ** Team work should always be a MUST:)) ANA ** The Wiki project is great we not only are more connected with English but we also have the oppurtunity to talk about our ideas to comunicate with more people, to make new friendships and to make bonds stronger between students-students and students-teacher!!!! Renato 11ºD ** The idea of keeping and strengthening bonds was the most important driving force that made me fight for this project. Good that you've mentioned it :)) Ana ** I really enjoyed the WIKI project. It has allowed us to learn and interact with other people in english, which is always good. But as Rita said, we sometimes don't have the time to come here because of tests. I think I had a good participation. I know I could've come on here more often than I did, but I sometimes just lack the time to do it. It's a wonderful project that I hope you'll keep for the next years :) Marta Ferreira
 * You're absolutely right. The interaction is one of the best points. Ana **
 * Hi, Mariana! I do agree that we had some funny, interesting and even spicy discussions over here. So, let's keep up the excellent work! THE WIKI is definitely OURS! ANA **
 * Yes, Inês! It implies a new concept of classroom and teaching and I'm glad you've liked it. ANA **

So, hello .I would like to say that wiki wasn't a bad thing at all. wiki was a good tool to learning, and not only to learning but also to give our personal opinion .Also , I think taht wiki is a way to push us to the new technologies. besides that I think, my participation was really weak , I can probably be here more times , but It's now already done , so , fine. Thanks a lot teacher, TIAGO LOPES 11A

Everything is evolving with technology, we often see manual work being done by computers or machines, so why not also evolve our way of learning? Insted of simply sticking to classes, thanks to the wiki, we also have a working tool ready to be used at home. Not in such a formal way, but in a funny way of doing things, I guess that is why everybody enjoyed it so much. Nuno Bico 11ªD

Yes, it was a interesting and a funny idea. Through this way we bring the english subjet to ours homes... and of course it help us more to achieve a great note :) But i want to give just a suggestion : next year create a facebook page because 1ºits more easy to work 2º we don t run the risk of clear another posts 3º you would not have security problems 4º it don t have a space limit .... ﻿Mr . Ramos

I enjoyed very much participating in this WIKI project. I think it was very helpfull because we wrote everything in English so that we could improve our writing skills, we had to to some research that made us more wise and knowledgeable and we interact with different people, diferent opinions, which made us more openminded. As for me, I think my participation was good but it could been better, speccialy in terms of quantity, I could have been more active in the WIKI. I liked it a lot, thanks teacher. :) Sofia Néri

Firstly I would like to congratulate you for this idea, as some of you said this was a very clever idea to connect both teacher and subject to the students. Wiki allowed us to be in touch with english on a daily basis. About my participation on wiki I have to say it could have been better but most of the times I lack time to come here. Anyways it was a great idea really enjoyed it : ). Thank you Teacher!! Filipa Farreca 11thA

I think that wiki was defenitly a great idea and that it helped a lot all the students not only to have a more active participation but also to express themselves. It was also really usefull for us to have access to more material to study and of corse also to interact with people from other classes. It is remarkable all the time and the effort that you had to creat all this pages and in my opinion the final balance is really positive! It was an innovative project that made us more interested about some themes and that allowed us to be in touch with different prespectives and have profitable discussions.Thank you for all the effort! Ana Paula 11th D

I have to admit that, at first, the fact that we had to write every week didn’t please me a lot, as I had a completely different idea of what Wiki would be. Fortunately, I was totally mistaken. The themes we discussed this year were very interesting and useful for our daily lives. It helped us to think about some important issues like discrimination, advantages and disadvantages of technological development, our future careers, … The fact that we could share our opinions with other students was very helpful in what concerns to improving our skills and using them in different circumstances. Besides, we were given the opportunity to improve our debate skills, as there were some different opinions among us. Therefore, I believe we should all be proud of the work that has been done! I also think I could have written a little more, but sometimes my opinions were similar to other students' opinions. Nuria Paulo 11D

It was one of the best things we have developed this year, by using the latest means of communication and information on the internet it provided a never ending fountain of information where anybody could give their opinion and place their doubts. If we missed something in class we could just jump in the WIKI and see the latest page, and get all the information we wanted. Yes it is true that we had a down time because of random case of hacking but nobody is completly safe arround here, for example sony as been it several times by a group of hackers these last months. In conclusion the WIKI gave us a lot of thinks we didn't even notice, by participating in a regular basis our english became beter without we noticing, we had a source of information 24/7 and it allowed us to express ourselves and view the same problem from other prespectives. Thank you teacher and everyone who coloaborated ** Bruno Correia 11ºB **

I agree that Wiki is a really innovative idea! The themes we talked about this year were very interesting and Wiki was a good support to talk more about them. My congratulations to the teacher and also all students that helped to make Wiki such a dynamic space! In the beggining, I was a little bit concerned with this idea because I don't like too much of technology but I changed my opinion. It wasn't such difficult to come here and add my opinion and my contribution! What was the page you liked most? __Teresa Silva 11D__

To begin I want to say that the creation of the wiki was a great and dynamic idea. We are able to discuss about almost everything and practise our english. Also it was an easy way to get acess to some usefull information to the tests. I hope this iniciative spread all over the teachers. About negative aspects I guess there were none although it should be obligatory for all the students( I'm talking about the lazy ones that normaly don't care about nothing). To finish I would like to once again to give my thanks to our teacher because of all the support that she gave us.

Filipe Borges 11º D

Hello everyone!! I am back... Sorry for being away for what seemed a lifetime, but work has me by the neck!! I would like to say that the Wiki is a great idea.. I wish I had it when I was student. Of course sometimes you might think that it takes some time from your life, time you could be dedicating to other things. I think that about lab journal meetings, spending time discussing papers when I could be in the lab saving the world!! ahhaah But this is a chance of learning something new, and also a chance of learning in a good way!! So I really enjoyed your wiki, congratulations to my lovely mum (the best one I might say...) and to all of you for participating. Now it is time to go back to the lab, kill some parasites and save the world one pipette at a time!!! ;) Kiki Costa

In my opinion wikispaces was very a good idea because it has promoted the use of English to communicate and the interaction with all the students from different classes. It has also made us think about many issues related with the topics that we have discussed. I must confess my participation wasn’t the best, but it was hard to have time to come to the computer when I had tests. I think it is a creative teaching/learning tool that has made us use English as our main language, and consequently, practise our writing and communicating skills. I’ve also really enjoyed the page “Tea Break” because it allowed everyone to express their musical preferences, by posting videos and comenting on other people's videos. Luís Tomás 11ºA

In my opinion, the Wiki is a fantastic tool to work, where we can learn a lot, interact with other classes and share our views, because after all, all opinions count! The Wiki was / is a kind of place to relax, where teacher always allowed us to be comfortable, making it a special place for all. My participation could have been much better, both in terms of quantity and quality, but time does not always allow it! I want to thank teacher who gave us this special place and maybe in the future other teachers also decide open a space like this one. Thank you teacher. It was a pleasure work with you. Kisses :D Rute Santos 11ºB

For me, at start, I was excited for having an forum that I could participate and it would increase my grades and it would be an fun way to interact with everybody, but I've become disapointed because, sincerely, I think that the site is not attractive and a little bit desorganized :x it doesn't captive me to come here. I'm sorry but this is the true :\ I really think that's a really good idea, but it's not well explored. Once again, I'm really sorry about my sincerety :\ Francisco Dias 11ºB

Hi, hi! G ood afternoon! Teacher, hadn't I predict this? We turned ourselves into wiki addicteds! I really liked participating on the wiki. Well, in retrospective, I gotta admit that, in my opinion, wiki has only been given its true significance, when the second term began. As a lot of people started to interact here, the discussions started to be more interesting, and I began to visit wiki, at least once a week, I think. This was really good because we were able to comment on different subjects with different people. And I gotta stand out the fact that we could comment on different subjects with people who weren't in the same class as me, that I gotta say, was pretty enriching. I don't know what am I going to choose next year, but if that decision turns out to be English Subject, I really hope the wiki project can continue. Jus tone thing, as most of us are familiar to facebook site, sometimes, I desperately want to hit A LIKE on some comments. I know that this is pretty impossible to do, as none of us manages the policy of the wiki site, but if there was any improovment that could be done I would say that one and another: give us more storage space freely, of course. Really, anew F A N of wiki project ! Mariana Marques

Hello everyone i wanna start by saying i'm probably not the best person to talk about this since i don't come here very often but anyway i think we can understand how important this kind of "event" is. It's perfect for different classes to share ideas and so we all know each other. It's also a great way for us to take doubts help others and learn. As for this last part (learn) it's a perfect idea and i think it should be like this is more classes then just english besides being fun you perfect your writing and even your speaking and thinking because has we all know if you can write you can spek (even if not well) and you can understand it or else you wouldn't even know what do write. Anyways even though i didn't write a lot i loved the idea and i hope it continues and spreads to other classes. Good Holidays for u teacher and everyone else :). Ricardo Afonso

From my point of view wiki is an excellent tool that enhances our english development out of school. It is a fun way of exchanging opinios, points of view or even stories about ourselves. This kind of communication allows us to enter in a new world where learning is our primer challenge, but is accompanied by amusement and joy. This kind of inniciative should come out of the blue more often, turning internet in a way of developing your english without having to place foot in school. =**Pedro, 11º D**=

Hi. For me, Wiki was an excelent and innovative project. I wished I had participated more during this period, but I always forgot... I was always saying to my DMP classmated that I had to participate in the wiki, but when I arrived home, I forgot. This project helped us improve our writting skills and also served to interact with other students. Our teacher has to be congratulated for this. Gonçalo Henriques

Wiki as allowed us to learn more about different topics due to the very good questions that have been raised on the discussion forum. It that mades us go beyond the work done in class. This also been a great way to know our collegues a bit better and to understand other people´s point of view! I have to admit that in the begining I wasn´t very fond of the wiki, but it kind of grows on you, doesn´t it? Rita Rebelo