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Wikis and Blogs How Do I Use Them?
  • Donna Teuber
  • Instructional Technology Services

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Hot Topics in Education
  • Blogs and Vlogs
  • Wikis

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David Warlick and Web 2.0
  • Yesterday, we used search engines to find
    information. Today, with RSS, we are training
    the information to find us.
  • In the same way that the web might be thought of
    as a global library, the blogosphere is a global
    conversation.
  • http//www.landmark-project.com/

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What is RSS?
  • The common link between podcasts, wikis, and
    blogs.
  • The file that allows you to subscribe to blogs,
    podcasts, and wikis and receive updates when
    changes have been made or content has been added.
  • You need an aggregator program on your computer
    to subscribe to RSS feeds (http//www.bloglines.co
    m)

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Blogs and Vlogs
  • What is a Blog?
  • A blog is an interactive web page most often used
    as a way to publish regular writings on a variety
    of issues and with a variety of goals. The term
    blog is a shortening of Web Log.
  • A vlog is a blog with video files. -
    http//www.archive.org/details/TheWeeklyBlab4
  • Blogs
  • Usually single author and usually personal
  • Reverse chronological structure
  • External links

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Blogs Educational Uses
  • Used in Education for
  • Writing Across the Curriculum
  • Educator Discussions
  • Travel Diaries
  • Current Events
  • Peer Review
  • Book Reviews
  • Learning Reflections
  • Team blogs

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Blog Examples
  • Blogs in the Classroom
  • Anatomy of a Blog
  • A blog entry typically consists of the following
  • Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.
  • Body, main content of the post.
  • Permalink, the URL of the full, individual
    article.
  • Post Date, date and time the post was published.
  • At the bottom
  • Syndicate this site
  • XML icon
  • read archives
  • comments

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Blog Exploration
  • Google Blog Search
  • BlogMeister (set up account)
  • 21Publish (set up account)
  • 21Classes (set up class account)
  • EPals
  • Think
  • Blogger
  • TeacherLingo
  • Image Blogging at Flickr (blocked)
  • Technorati (blocked)

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Wikis
  • What is a Wiki?
  • a type of website that allows users to add,
    remove, or otherwise edit and change most content
    very quickly and easily.
  • Wiki in Hawaiian means Quick! Invented in 1995.
  • Wikis
  • Usually many authors
  • Structure determined by content and users
  • Usually objective
  • Internal and external links

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Wikis Educational Uses
  • Used in Education for
  • Team Collaborations
  • Classroom Dictionary
  • Story Starters
  • Collaborative Note Book
  • Professional Collaborations
  • Peer Review and Editing
  • Weblogs, Wikis and Writing
  • http//mrlindsay.pbwiki.com/

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Wiki Examples
  • Wikipedia
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
  • EduTech Wiki
  • http//edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Main_Page
  • Staples High School Wiki
  • http//wiki.stapleshigh.net/wiki/Main_Page

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Wiki Exploration
  • Wikipedia http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
  • Wikidot workshop page - http//newtech.wikidot.com
    /
  • Seedwiki http//seedwiki.com/
  • PBWiki http//www.pbwiki.com/
  • PBWiki videos - http//educators.pbwiki.com/Presen
    terPackInfo
  • New Technologies PB Wiki - http//newtechnologies.
    pbwiki.com to participate in workshop wiki
    discussion

13
Social Bookmarking
  • How can we share bookmarks?
  • Use of tag clouds
  • Delicious - http//del.icio.us (blocked)
  • Backflip - http//www.backflip.com/login.ihtml
  • Blinklist - http//www.blinklist.com/
  • Furl - http//www.furl.net/index.jsp
  • Google Documents - http//docs.google.com

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Sites Popular with Students
  • MySpace
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Flickr Photo Sharing
  • Chat Rooms
  • 43Things (tagging)
  • Online writing communities http//www.lulu.com
  • Podcasting sites
  • MUDs (Multi-User Dimension)
  • Second Life MUD

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