My Light Bulb

Driving down the road the other morning I'm sitting there thinking about the music.  A little bit of 80's rock, jamming out to "Tarzan Boy".  I haven't heard that song in forever and I start reflecting on the first time I heard it.  My parent's study, on the lime green chair over my JVC boom box.

Out of no where, it hits me.  The light turns on in my head and I'm now thinking about how easy it would be for me to incorporate a Wiki into one of my lessons.  My students are in AFDA, a high school course dedicated to functions and algebra.  However, one of the sections is learning all about financing.  I have a few seniors in my class and the rest juniors.  I thought, they are soon going to be going to beach week and I remember watching a video when I was learning about Wikis by a group named CommonCraft.  They broke it down to a quick and easy 3 minute video that just made absolute sense.  Basically, wikis for dummies.  

I decided to take the idea that CommonCraft uses of building a camping trip using a wiki and have them build a Beach Week trip using the wiki.  Now, I have done the same with middle school, but this one had to propose a little higher math.  Since some of them have jobs, the propose questions would be, "How many hours would you have to work in order for you to save up for beach week?".  They will need to research the taxes that get taken out of Virginia paychecks, think about car rental places and insurance, look up rental properties and so on.  I even think that they could use part of the Wiki to do a price budget of food like we did my summer program when we learned how BlackBoard could help out in collaboration.

So, I'm not sure what sparked this idea to pop in my head.  In fact, it was quite frustrating and I missed the rest of the song.  Luckily, I was on Pandora and I quickly jumped over to Spotify to put it on my playlist.  Problem averted and Tarzan Boy was back to bless the airwaves in my car.