Blogs and Wikis for Beginners
- 1. Blogs & Wikis in the Classroom Lower Hudson Regional Information Center
- 2. Web 1.0 – Web 2.0 Read Only – Read/Write DoubleClick oFoto mp3.com Britannica Online Media reviews Personal Websites Publishing Content Directories (taxonomy) Hyperlinks Google AdSense Flckr Napster Wikipedia Amazon (user reviews) Blogging Participation Wikis Tagging ("folksonomy“- collaborative categorization of information) RSS
- 3. The Past, Present and Future of the Web is Now Learn about something – Google Experts Static information Writing for teacher & grade - an audience of one Learn about and from people – Blogosphere Construction & sharing knowledge Publish to the world Writing for all w/ feedback & dialog Social Networking Exploit the content of social computing sites, store information (for commercial purposes?) Machines will do intelligent things Move from a web of connected documents to a Web of connected data (Semantic Web) Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0
- 4. Web 2.0 Tools RSS – share content between websites Aggregators – collects RSS feeds Delicious - social bookmarking tool Flickr - online photo management and sharing application Slideshare – share slides online YouTube – share videos Technorati – blog search tool Digg – members submit news articles Mashups – data from one site is integrated into another
- 6. Educational Benefits of Blogs & Wikis Help students to communicate & collaborate Motivate students to participate Provide opportunities to read & write Postings can be created by students any time, any place
- 7. Being Five – a cartoon blog http://beingfive.blogspot.com/
- 8. Preparing the classroom for blogging Determine school policy AUP Viewing student work online Parental notification Teach student safe online behavior Set expectations
- 11. Wiki Collaboration collaborative public writing tool Community of users construct knowledge Edit, delete or modify content Ongoing collective work of many authors Students “own” their learning experience
- 12. Wikis
- 13. Q. How many Wiki people does it take to change a lightbulb? A. One, but anyone can change it back. - langreiter.com