Wikis and Blogs: How Do I Use Them

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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

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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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