Blogs and Wikis: Examples for Education
Blogs to Visit
http://www.polarscience.ca/
How do seals’ muscles work while they are diving in water, but not breathing?
Students from schools throughout Canada and the U.S. join scientist Dr.
Thomas Hawke’s Antarctica project – researching the breathing mechanisms
of Weddell Seals. Blogging enables the students to ask questions, get
answers, see photos and get a real sense of the research and the adventure.
http://revealers.edublogs.org/i-have-seen-bullying/
Blog where students can write about their experiences
Wikis to Visit
Romantic Audience Project
http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668/space/snipsnap-index
Bowdoin College students in English 242: The Romantic Audience co-author
an expansive, well-indexed wiki.
http://www.writehere.net/moin.cgi/FrontPage
Stuck on that dialogue you’re writing? Having a hard time proceeding with
that plot? Read, write and re-write stories – your own and others’! Started by
University of MD student Matt Bowen, this wiki gives new meaning to
“collaborative writing”.
Blog-making Tools
http://wordpress.org/
www.blogger.com
www.bloglines.com
Wiki-making Tools
Compare wiki tools (from TLT group)
http://www.tltgroup.org/ProFacDev/BLOGSetc.htm#Samples%20of%20Wikis
More Resources
http://higheredblogcon.editme.com/
HigherEd BlogCon 2006, a free online conference in April 2006, aims to
bring together in a single Web space many of the people who are transforming
academe with their use of the new tools of the Social Web.
Higher Ed BlogCon will focus on the use of blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, vblogs
and other digital tools in a range of areas in academe, including (thus far):
Teaching
Admissions, Alumni Relations, and Communications & Marketing
Web sites and Web Development
Library & Information Resources
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp?bhcp=1
Good article in Educause: “Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not”
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