Using blogs, journals and wikis: an introduction

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Using Blogs, Journals and Wikis – an introduction


Maximizing Classroom Collaboration Using Web 2.0 Technology (Future Technology)

Specifically, using Blogs, Journals and Wikis


Examples of Web 2.0 Technologies

Emphasize online collaboration & sharing among users

Wikipedia’s description of Web 2.0:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Wikis – Wikipedia, TikiWiki

Blogs – Blogger, WordPress

Social Bookmarking Sites – del.icio.us, BlinkList

Web-based applications – ThinkFree, BaseCamp

Google Docs and Spreadsheets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0


Session objectives

By completing this session, you will be able to:

• Describe benefits & obstacles to collaboration. Whether among students, among faculty, or between students & faculty.

• Identify online tools that support collaborative work. Particularly collaborative work on a shared document.

• List examples of specific uses to support collaborative teaching & learning. Identify examples from your classes or work where a collaborative environment such as this is useful.

• Determine how to evaluate whether or not to use Blogs, Journals and Wikis for certain educational situations. Dependent on your instructional goals or context and characteristics of students or lecturers, etc…


Definition

Collaboration - the act of collaborating. Working together for a common end.

Latin roots: “to labour together.”


What do we collaborate on?

ManuscriptsGrant proposalsPresentationsClassesGroup projectsPapersOther things


How do we collaborate?

In the past, more slowly & at more expense:

Postal mail documents

Telephone calls

21st century collaborators often use:

Emailed documents

Skype or other VoiP service


Now you!What are some strategies that you’ve used

Collaborate with Colleagues & Other Professionals

Collaborate with Students


Now you!Rate how well your collaboration strategies have worked (overall or specifically)


Why don’t our standard collaboration strategies work well?

Multiple people

Multiple versions of material

Retaining material

Limited access to most current material


What students want in collaborative projects…

Anytime access to the most current version

Ability to use programs they already know

Ability to retain all versions, in case of the need to add material back in

Automatic saving, just in case they forget that important step

Ability for faculty to identify contributions of the various group members


Now you!What collaborative activities do you use in classes?

Papers?

Presentations?

Other things? (describe)

Consider how well these collaborative activities work – for you as lecturer in your faculty


Programs facilitating collaboration

Skype (or others) – computer to computer callsFolderShare – file sharingStickam – synchronous videoTalkAndWrite – synchronous document interactionTikiwiki (or others) – collaborative creation of materialsGoogle Docs & Spreadsheets – centralized storage of documents for editing by multiple personsBlogger (or others)– web logJournal – reflective writingToonti (or others) – personal network


Now you!Have you used Google Doc, Wikis, Blogs & Journals?

Yes NoI love it! I had

some issues with it.

I’ve heard of it, but didn’t think it would be useful.

This is the 1st time I’m exploring it.

With colleagues

With students

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