Post on 18-Jan-2016
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
A 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
• 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…
‘take-aways’…• there is no ‘right’ way…• don’t assume…• what makes sense?...• start small…• get help…• ask students…• remember why…