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Blogs and Wikis

Blogs and Wikis. Introduction to Educational Uses. Social Software : Collaborative Weblogs and Wiki Webs. New technologies allow students to collaborate on formal and informal projects Provide a shared space for reflection and information exchange

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Blogs and Wikis

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  1. Blogs and Wikis Introduction to Educational Uses

  2. Social Software:Collaborative Weblogs and Wiki Webs • New technologies allow students to collaborate on formal and informal projects • Provide a shared space for reflection and information exchange • Allows for editing an updating in an environment that can be tracked • Allow learners to work in a shared digital space. "If we teach today as we did yesterday, we rob the students of tomorrow." http://si.ist.psu.edu/blogs/node/11 Submitted by bpursel on Wed, 2005-04-06 From the Center for Scholarly Technology – University of Southern California

  3. Collaborative Learning Online • "We know one of the most successful forms of e-learning is collaborative learning done online through social interactive discussion. Weblogs build off of this successful model as a dynamic form of e-learning content and an engaging e-learning experience." • - from Blown Away by RSS Feeds & Blogs by Paul Stacey (2003).

  4. Group authoring Push vs Pull • Email - Information is Pushed Out • Document might be email to members • Attempts made to coordinate edits • Problems • What happens when the same idea is included in different ways; or someone drops the email ball • Wiki – Information is Pulled In • Wiki Web pulls members together to build and edit on one page. Allows overlapping ideas to be seen • Members can build on each other’s work and see latest edits

  5. What is a Blog? • Short for Weblog a mixture is an online journal meant to be public and allow comments. • Consists of links, commentary, personal thoughts • Generally represent the personality of the author and are established by “bloggers” for a variety of purposes

  6. Why are they popular? • Frequently updated • Reverse chronological order • Unfiltered information (also unverified) • Can provide links to related information • Allows group discussions and comments • Easy-to-use software • Pew Internet Project - 44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to the online world (2003)

  7. Blogs for Collaboration • Uses for Teaching and Learning • Types of Blogs

  8. Some Examples • Journalism Blogs • Political Blogs • Blogs on the campaign trail • Professors who Blog • Search the Blogosphere

  9. What is a Wiki? • Q. How many Wiki people does it take to change a lightbulb?A. One, but anyone can change it back. • How do you know if the information is correct? • “As anyone can edit any article, it is of course possible for biased, out of date, or incorrect information to be posted. However, because there are so many other people reading the articles and monitoring contributions using the Recent Changes page, incorrect information is usually corrected quickly. Thus, the overall accuracy of the encyclopedia is improving all the time as it attracts more and more contributors.” More

  10. The never-ending story…. • Multiple contributors • Unlike a blog, which has one main identifiable author, a wiki web page may be authored and edited by a number of people. Please, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,The courage to edit the pages I can,And the wisdom to know the difference. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiPrayer

  11. The most famous wiki • Wikipedia • 3.7 million articles in 200 languages • Who writes/Who edits? • Sister Projects

  12. How Accurate is it? http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/12/15/wikipedia.ap/index.html

  13. Why Wiki Works • Q: What stops any old idiot from wandering by and erasing or defacing all of your entries? Don't you have any password protection at all? • A: See WikiWipeout (and WhyWikiWorks and WhyNobodyDeletesWiki). Basically, nothing stops anyone from defacing the Wiki. It doesn't happen anyway. No, there's no password protection. Some defacement occurs on a page-by-page basis, but it's immediately corrected by the community, thanks to RecentChanges. From http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWebFaq

  14. Wiki Educational Links • Educational Wikis International Review of Research in Distance Learning • Educause Review • TLT Group – Educational Uses

  15. Discussion • Has anyone used either of these tools? • Where you a reader or a writer? • What type of Wiki or Blog was it?  Do you think this might be an effective tool for classroom use?

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