Blogs and Wikis

Rachel Lacyrachel@itsco.org

Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio, Inc.December 11, 2008

SOITADayton, Ohio

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What is Web 2.0?

I Didn’t know there was a web 1.0….

The Read/Write Web…..

Collaboration in the Classroom:

Working Together=Working Smarter

The Interactive Web

The Social Web

What is a Wiki?What is it?• Free online writing space• Allows multiple authors to add, update, edit• The process is the product

Ideas?• Group projects• Manage school and class documents• Use as a presentation tool

A slideshow from PB Wiki

Make a free wiki as easily as a

Peanut butter sandwich.

A wiki is an easy-to-use

free web page that multiple

people can edit.

Wiki means Quick in Hawaiian

In the classroom, a wiki is a free

tool that empowers

every student to participate

in group projects.

James has assigned a team research project.

What can he do to encourage the students to work together, share resources and create high

quality work?

ConversePost ideas

Respond

Forum

WritePublish

Comment

CreatePublish

CommentConversePost IdeasRespond

ShareEdit

CollaborateEngage

Blog Wiki

Three great ways to communicate with students

“It's so easy to create a site to help guide

students along with projects. I have found that

it's a good way to make handouts available to students - I just point

them at the web address. I post links to my PBwiki

sites on Rockford's site so that parents can access

project guidelines as well.”

Justin Wylie Rockford High School

How can she make certain her online site is off limits to child

predators?

How can she be sure that her students won’t be drawn onto the web?

Mary wants to be sure her students are is protected from the wider internet.

YOU control who sees your wiki

You set the password.You choose who participates.

Educator wikis are free and never display advertisement

s

NO ADS

Jamie wants to make certain her students act appropriately on

line.

Will her students write offensive

comments?

How can she monitor her students activity?

You have a history of every edit

You are notified of every change

No more “dog ate my homework”

Edits are time stamped. You know who made changes and when they were made.

Wikis are Free and Easy to set up

No IT department is needed!

Simply create a password and begin

Set it up and it worksjust like typing in Microsoft Word

Just like creating a

Word document

Easily insert

Images and Video

Just click and begin

Post a picture or a video in three easy steps

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3 – You’re Done!!!

Teachers can make coursework and

homework information easily available to both students and

parents.

With easy to use plugins you can create

a calendar.

Quickly create new pages

Templates designed with

teachers in mind

Unlimited pages for free educator

wikis!

For more ideas check out the PBwiki educator page. You can

find tips, suggestions, templates and a community of fellow

teacher users.

http://educators.pbwiki.com

Join the more than 135,000 teachers who

have used PBwikis for their classrooms, from elementary schools

to Stanford and Harvard. http://epochewiki.pbwiki.com

http://mrlindsay.pbwiki.com

http://missb.pbwiki.comhttp://cas100b.pbwiki.com

Educator wikis are free, fast and ready to use.

Create one now at

www.pbwiki.com

A Wiki Moviehttp://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

Great Wiki Examples and Integration Ideas http://www.diigo.com/dashboard/simonra Examples:• Holocaust Page• 5th Grade Book Study Wiki• Collaborative Novel AvonMagnolia Wiki

What is a blog?What is it? • Short for ‘weblog’• “Empty book”• Commenting feature

Examples:• Columbus Academy PD blog• AP Calculus• 6th Grade Homework blog

Blogs in the Classroom• Access to relevant materials • Communication with absent students• Increased parent involvement• Continue discussions outside classroom• Q&A with guest speakers• Post prompts for writing• Publish examples of good student writing

Advantages of Using a Blog• Instant publishing • Free or little cost• Comment features • Work for any subject• Give everyone a voice • Promote ownership of work • Reflection on process • Comments incite excitement

Questions?

Let’s build a blog and wiki