Professional Development Committee Workshop
Wikis, Blogs and Other Ways to Use the Internet for Student Collaboration

Description

Learn to create a wiki.  Teach your students to create and use wikis to collaborate with others on written assignments.  Learn how students can have their work seen by the world when they contribute their expertise to Wikipedia.

Student
Learning
Objectives

  

Easy Collaborative sites

Google Docs (documents, spreadsheets, presentations)

Wikis

Wikipedia Comparison of wiki farms

Wikiversity

Articles that compare the major players

Which Wiki is Right for You?
By Shonda Brisco -- School Library Journal, 5/1/2007

Blogs

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Combine your own words and photos - with historical documents from US Archives and photos and word of other Footnote users - into a personal story (blog)
what a way to learn history!   YouTube video introducing Footnote site
 
bulletArticles on how to do it
bulletA List Apart: Articles: How to Write a Better Weblog
bullet How to Write Killer Blog Posts & More Compelling Comments
bulletHow to Write Compelling Blog Posts| MarketingProfs.com
bulletAnyone can write a blog, but will anyone read it? | csmonitor.com
bullet Blogging for Beginners
bullet Seth's Blog: How to write a blog post

WebPage

bullet google sites

YouTube, NBR and other ways to Explore and learn further

Blogs in Plain English (11/29/2007 2:58)

Google Docs in Plain English (10/18/2007 2:50)

Wikis in Plain English (5/29/2007 3:52) (Wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe. We hope to turn you on to a better way to plan a camping trip, or create the next Wikipedia)

21st Century Learning (10/19/2007 7:54) (A showcase of two digital projects in my high school history (creating a wiki-based history textbook and blog) and language arts (a global wiki creative writing workshop, "The 1001 Flat World Tales") classes.

Web 2.0 Panel Discussion - Does the "Wiki" Model Work? (8/9/2007, 7:11)

Lee LeFever on Travel Technology (2/14/2007 5:30) Travel Blog

Wetpaint Wikis in Plain English (10/2/2007 2:34)

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