Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarks

Thoughts on Web Blogging!

• http://polleverywhere.com

Web BloggingIndividual journaling, class websites, homework help,

class publication of “best” work

One Experiment

Popular Blogs in Ed

• http://blogger.com

• http://typepad.com

• http://wordpress.com

Geared at Younger Kids

• http://edublogs.com

• http://kidblog.com

• http://gaggle.net

Examples of Blogging in K-6

Class Webiste Blogs

• http://mrsmagyar.blogspot.com/

• http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337

Project Blogs

• http://innovativeimpact.blogspot.com/2010/01/arctic-animal-adventure.html

• http://wainauguration.org/

Wikis

Wikis in Plain English

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Wiki Vs. Blog

Wiki

• Collaborative

• Process

• Data Gathering and Sharing

Blog

• Individual

• Final/Product

• Journaling

Experiment with Wikis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sGbnMRmtbg&feature=related

Examples of Wikis K-12

Project Based

• http://askmrsmartin.wikispaces.com/

• http://brookhavenreads.pbworks.com/

Class Websites

• http://b-7bobcats.wikispaces.com/08-09

• http://klreynolds.pbworks.com/

• http://elementaryspanish.wikispaces.com/

More Examples!

• Examples of Wikis in Educationhttp://webwizards.wikispaces.com/Wiki+this+Way (Many examples!)http://parentworkshop.wikispaces.com/Web+Safety-Education+Links (Parent Workshop)http://mrlambmath.wikispaces.com/quadratics (Algebra)http://huronchemistry433-434.pbworks.com/ (Chemistry)http://mcbridewcperiodone.pbworks.com/ (History)http://clusterw.wikispaces.com/ (History)http://khsaplit.pbworks.com/ (English)http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/apwhreview/index.php?title=Holocaust_Wiki_Project (History)http://pc40s.pbworks.com/ (Pre-Calculus)http://saintmichael.wikispaces.com/2008-2009-newsletter (Computer Class)

Popular Wikis

• http://pbwiki.com

• http://wikispaces.com

Evaluate Wikis

• Try both wiki sites

• http://wikispaces.com

• http://pbworks.com

• Create a new account

• Insert a new page

• Insert a picture

Social Bookmarking

What is Social Bookmarking?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc

Ideas for Using Social Bookmarking in Learning

• List web resources by class. Students go to the the bookmarking URL and click on the tag for their class

• Create pages of links students need for creating a particular project

• Teach about social bookmarking to students and teachers

• Help students manage resources for projects and papers

• Help teachers organize resources for units, projects and topics

• Access bookmarks from home, school, classrooms, or anywhere

• Linking from library media center webpage to links for different disciplines, classes, teachers, projects, etc.

• Create RSS feeds of different tags for the school library media center webpage to keep it current

• Guide students to most-relevant websites for assignments

• Sharing great sites and articles with other library media specialists

• Sharing sites with teachers by tagging them with their names and/or subjects

• Store and organize bookmarks

• Collect and share lesson plan ideas

• Collect and share new curriculum related websites when the curriculum is changing

• Provide quick bookmarks for specific teachers for specific research projects

• Create a page of research/report help sites

• Create bibliographies for student research

• Check out sites recommended by others with similar interests

• Contact others who have similar interests to collaborate on ideas, projects, papers, publications, presentations

• Annotate websites for students and teachers

Sites to Evaluate

• http://delicious.com

• http://diigo.com