World War One Project

This joint project was created by post-primary pupils aged between 16 and 17 years from Wellington College, Belfast and Presentation Secondary School, Tralee.  It is an example of one group’s collaboration using Wikis in Moodle.  Three other similar wikis were produced by other groups on the topic of the first world war.

Wiki pages were contributed by both schools.  Good photos were displayed in the World War One wikis, including some of the pupils themselves visiting the trenches while on their face to face visit to Belgium. 

This school partnership also produced interesting work on stereotypes, particularly on Northern Irish and Irish stereotypes.  A questionnaire was shared between schools.  The ‘history’ of the wikis revealed debate between north and south, with pupils changing wiki pages and giving opinions on what others thought of them. 
The teacher from the Northern Ireland school commented in an interview on how successful the contentious debate had been:

 
‘I wouldn’t say our school is sectarian but there are elements of sectarianism, there are two girls in the group who would be very rigid in their views and… one has changed completely and when they went away they met other people and got on famously, they were emailing each other, phoning each other so I think that has been almost a revelation for her’.



World War 1 project