An Intro to Blogs & Wikis

An Intro to Blogs & Wikis

Teaching & Learning with Web 2.0 Tools…

think first…

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What can blogs or wikis do for you/your teaching/your class/your students/their learning???

why???

Build community

Enable collaboration/collaborative learning

Foster interaction/making connections

Support sharing/shared inquiry

Sustain conversation

Create a more active/participatory learning experience

wikis

Hawaiian for ‘quick’…

wikis -

What I Know Is…W IKI

wikis

wikis

wikisA wiki is a group Web site. All those who are

members of a wiki may add, edit and delete content on the site.

• Collaborative… anarchic... chaotic… open-ended… insecure… fluid… collective… self-correcting… egalitarian… inelegant… open… shared… user-vicious… interactive.

From: geekgirl’s plain english computing

t/l with wikis• From U Minnesota – Teaching with Wikis

blogs

blogs

blogs• content is published in a chronological fashion• content is updated regularly• readers have the possibility to leave comments• other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and

pingbacks• content is syndicated via RSS feeds

From: DailyBlogTips

t/l with blogs• Joe Sanchez via EDUCAUSE

decisions

Why?

Public or private?

Your participation expectations

Technical help for students

take-aways:

there is no ‘right’ way…

don’t assume…

what makes sense?...

start small…

get help…

ask students…

remember why…

‘take-aways’…• there is no ‘right’ way…• don’t assume…• what makes sense?...• start small…• get help…• ask students…• remember why…