Blogs, Wikis and Social Bookmarking

Title III Electric Lunch Series – By Eric Waterkotte 1/25/2008

Part I - Blogs: What are they and why should I care?

Part II - Wikis: As in wikipedia?

Part III - Social Bookmarking: like bookmarks only different.

Blog (from the words web log): a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

“one” to many communication on the web.

Light weight content management systems

* Definition pulled from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blog

Inspirational: http://www.doitmyselfblog.com/

Cooking : http://deglazed.finarelli.com/

Technology: http://www.darcynorman.net/

Teaching: http://nyceducator.com/

In writing courses: writing journals

To develop and share ideas among peers…. Worldwide

Student E-Portfolios

Sharing course-related resources

There are several free blogging tools out there here are a few:

▪ http://www.edublogs.org

▪ http://www.wordpress.com

▪ http://www.blogger.com

Wiki (wē’kē): A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it.

Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word for quick or fast.

Many to many communications

* Definition pulled from wiktionary: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wiki

The ultimate wiki: http://www.wikipedia.org/

Dictionary wiki: http://www.wiktionary.org/

In Education: http://flatclassroomproject2006.wikispaces.com/

Writing a book collaboratively with students

Creating and managing a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Knowledge bases

Product reviews

There are several free Wiki tools out there here are a few:

▪ http://www.pbwiki.com

▪ http://www.wetpaint.com

▪ http://www.wikispaces.com

Social Bookmarking: a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

* Definition pulled from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

There are several free social bookmarking sites out there here are a few:

▪ http://del.icio.us/

▪ http://www.blogmarks.net/

▪ http://www.digg.com/