Blogs and Wikis for Beginners

Slide 1: Blogs & Wikis in the Classroom Lower Hudson Regional Information Center

Slide 2: Web 1.0 – Web 2.0 Read Only – Read/Write • • DoubleClick Google AdSense • • oFoto Flckr • • mp3.com Napster • • Britannica Online Wikipedia • • Media reviews Amazon (user reviews) • • Personal Websites Blogging • • Publishing Participation • • Content Wikis • • Directories (taxonomy) Tagging ("folksonomy“- collaborative categorization of • Hyperlinks information) • RSS

Slide 3: The Past, Present and Future of the Web is Now Web 3.0 Web 2.0 Web 1.0 •Exploit the • Learn about and • Learn about from people – content of social something – Blogosphere computing sites, Google store information • Construction & (for commercial • Experts sharing purposes?) knowledge •Machines will do • Publish to the intelligent things • Static information world •Move from a • Writing for web of connected • Writing for all w/ teacher & grade - feedback & dialog documents to a an audience of Web of one • Social Networking connected data (Semantic Web)

Slide 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

Slide 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

Slide 7: Being Five – a cartoon blog http://beingfive.blogspot.com/

Slide 8: Preparing the classroom for blogging • Determine school policy – AUP – Viewing student work online – Parental notification • Teach student safe online behavior • Set expectations

Slide 10: David Warlick – How to http://classblogmeister.com/

Slide 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

Slide 12: Wikis

Slide 13: • Q. How many Wiki people does it • take to change a lightbulb? • A. One, but anyone can change it back. -langreiter.com