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/