Sept 19 --- Blogs / Wikis / Web sites -

what is best for various purposes?

Dr. R. Redekopp U of Manitoba Faculty of Education

What are blogs and

wikis?

Blogs

•Easy to use

•Usually one person

•A record of events

•Usually date driven

•Usually one 'page'Samples:rredekopp.blogspot.com

Wikis

Like wikipedia:o multiple contributorso multiple pageso needs organizing administratoro easy to use, but very basic editingo page historyo a record of changes

Samples:teacherandteach.pbworks.com

tciwiki.wikispaces.com

mobilelearningcourse.pbworks.com

Web Pages

•Higher degree of difficulty

•Usually more flexibility of layout

•Multiple pages

•Multiple usersExampleshttps://sites.google.com/site/sythemeshttp://toomuchfudge.weebly.com/

How are they best used?

• Information sharing - all of them

•Building knowledge bases - wikis

•Discussions (for the inhibited) - blog comments or wikis

•Sharing resources - wikis / web sites

•Record keeping - wikis / web sites

•RWLs - all of them

How are they best used?

•Teacher wikio http://aredekopp.pbworks.com/w/page/

2928924/FrontPage

•Education Web Siteo https://sites.google.com/site/sythemes/home

•My blog (a diary/reference of class notes)o http://rredekopp.blogspot.ca/

•Shared Professional Learningo http://goodertech.pbworks.com/w/page/

14867901/FrontPage