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To the Wonderful World of
Wikis and Blogs
Blogs
 Blogger
 Wordpress
Wikis
 Wikispaces
 pbworks
Blogs
Blogs in Plain English
Blogging in Education
Limited Only by Your
Imagination
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Instructors
 Content-related blog as
professional practice
 Networking and personal
knowledge sharing
 Instructional tips for
students
 Course announcements
and readings
 Annotated links
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Students
 Reflective or writing
journals
 Assignment submission
and review
 Peer review of essay drafts
 Dialogue for groupwork
 E-portfolios
 Share course-related
resources
Sample Educational Blogs
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This Week in Education
 http://www.thisweekineducation.com/
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Science Blog
 http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/inde
x.php
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Cool Cat Teacher
 http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
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Ed Tech Lady
 http://edtechlady.blogspot.com/
Try blogging yourself
The simplest method is to sign up with a blogging
service provider, such as Blogger
http://www.blogger.com where you can literally
start a blog in 2 minutes.
You create a username and a password, enter a
description of your blog and select a visual theme
from a list, which you can change later if you
decide you don’t like it.
Then you choose a URL and start typing. If you are
a fast typist, you can hit the Submit and Publish
button before 120 seconds elapses and your blog
will go online immediately.
Wikis in Plain English
Wikis:
The ultimate collaboration tool
 Special web site
 allows visitors to add, remove, edit &
change content
 Not need access to or knowledge of
web publishing software
 Collaboration
 Group members work on common
document in common location
Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary
Edited in Real Time by Anyone
Wikis are often used to create
collaborative websites and are
increasingly being installed by
businesses to provide affordable
and effective Intranets or for use
in Knowledge Management.
How do you use a wiki?
How can we use wikis
in education?
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Advocate
Connect
Collaborate
Innovate
How can we use wikis?
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Provide a space for free writing
Collect data for research projects
Share resources, such as websites,
annotated bibliographies
Lesson summaries/notes posted by
students
Group/individual assessment projects
Collaborative writing and peer review
Wikis in Education
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Amistad wiki
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Collaborative Stories wiki
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Welker's Wikinomics Page
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winner of the 2007 EduBlog Awards "Best Educational
Wiki" award for students and teachers of Economics.
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Eckerd College
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Integrating i3D into Instruction
Teaching & Learning
Resources Wiki
http://teachinglearningresources.pbworks.com/
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Toolkit of online resources
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Course design
Course management systems
Faculty Development Resources
Online Training
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Web 2.0
Learning Theories
Learning Styles
WikiBooks
Started July 10, 2003—mission to create a free collection of
open-content textbooks that anyone can edit
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Foundations_and_Current_Issu
es_of_Early_Childhood_Education/WikiText_Development_
Process
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Old Dominion—WikiText project
 Students enrolled in class develop own textbook for
the course
Horizon Project
http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/
Collaborative global project between classrooms in
diverse geographical locations
 USA (6 classes—4 schools)
 Japan (1 class)
 Qatar (2 classes—2 schools)
 Austria (1 class)
 Spain (1 class)
 Australia (2 classes—2 schools)
Choose the Right Tool
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Blogs
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Wikis