Wikis/Blogs in the 21st Century ClassroomTimothy Stafford MA, MSOak Brook Productions and Liberty Building Forensics Group

What is WEB 2.0?

Rich Internet applications (RIA)

Java

Flash

Ajax

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) - The focus of RIA is to bring the experiences of the desktop into the internet/web browser experience (Drag and drop as an example)

What is WEB 2.0?

RSS Feeds

Web Servic

es

Mash-ups

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) - The focus of SOA is to expose the inner workings of applications so that they may be connected with other applications to provide an application rich environment

What is WEB 2.0?

Social

Web

Tagging

Blogs

Wikis

Podcast

s

Social Web - The end user is more than a merely a user but a participant within the applications. This participation is leveraged by the applications to create unique, content-rich environments

What is a Blog?

Understanding Blogs through a redefining of "News”

20th Century News

Primarily Professional

Edited Scripted Distributed

21st Century News

Additionally PersonalPersonal Interest

Small Business Politics Religio

n

What is a Blog?

Easy to setup, use, and personalize

Interactive with full moderation capabilities

Real time updating as often as needed

Blogs are post driven; this creates a unique, web-based environment

Blogs in the Classroom

Learner

Teacher to

Learner

Learner to

LearnerNetworkin

g

Blogs in the Classroom

Parents

Teacher to Parent

Parent to Teacher Parent to

Parent

Blogs in the Classroom

Professionall

y

Teacher to

Teacher

Educational

Networking

Staff Develop

ment

What is a Wiki?

Easy to setup, use, and

personalize

Interactive with full

moderation capabilities

Multiple page layout versatility

Fully collaborative with an unlimited

number of contributors

Wikis are driven by collaboration

Wikis in the Classroom

Learner

Collaborative

Projects

Student Authored Publicatio

ns

Course

Syllabi

Source Documentation

Wikis in the Classroom

Parents

Student/Teacher Handbo

oks

PTA Minut

es

School Event

Calendars

Booster Club

Coordination

Wikis in the Classroom

Professionally

Interdisciplinary

Collaborative

Projects

Staff policies

and procedur

es

Curricula

Authoring

Staff Development

Other Web 2.0 ApplicationsSocial Networking

Social Bookmarking

Widgets and

Widget Creation

Mash-ups (Advanced

users)

E-learning Course rooms

Practical References for EducatorsBLOGGING

WIKIS

Blogger(blogger.com)

Word Press(wordpress.c

om)

Technorati(Technorati.c

om)

Yudu Freedom (yudufreedom.

com)

pbwiki.com

wetpaint.com

wikispaces.com

wikipedia.com

Other notable 2.0 applications for educators Social Networking

○myspace.com○facebook.com○linkedin.com○twitter.com

Social Bookmarking○delicious.com○digg.com

Other cool tools ask500people.com bitstrips.com bubbleguru.com conduit.com getdropbox.com go2web20.net easytestmaker.com jing.com myhappyplanet.com podomatic.com visualthesaurus.com yacapaca.com  

Wikis/Blogs in the 21st Century ClassroomTimothy Stafford MA, MSOak Brook Productions and Liberty Building Forensics Group