One of the objectives of the Internet Safety project was to trial innovative technologies and one of the ways we planned to do this was to allow ordinary teachers and lecturers to change the contents of the course using a wiki.
The original version of the unit [PDF] was created in the traditional way i.e. SQA officer (me) appoints a lead developer (Ted) who writes a draft unit and then consults on its contents, finally creating an initial version of the unit. Inevitably, some people like it and some don't.
The idea of putting the current unit on a wiki and encouraging practitioners to contribute to it effectively gives control of the unit's contents to ordinary teachers and lecturers. Well, that's the theory. I am aware that good ideas like this often don't work due to several reasons - time constraints on busy teachers being the most common. But it will be interesting to see if this small experiment works. If it does, maybe SQA would develop all of their qualifications this way?
The wiki is here - and since it's based on Mediawiki it can be changed in the same way as Wikipedia. Although anyone can change the contents of the unit, I would ask you to create an account and log into the wiki so that your individual contribution can be tracked.
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I'm not sure that it's cultural Ewan - more likely time and training. In my experience there is a willingness among teachers to use collaborative/digital technologies but lack of time and training often makes this difficult or impossible for them.
Hi Bobby
I tried to get on to the wiki during a P&C period, but had trouble creating an account. Any ideas?
David - Sorry about this problem. It has now been resolved (it was resolved within 24 hours actually so I hope you accessed it OK).
I've added to a couple of parts of the document, and made a point in the discussion area.
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