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Blogs and Wikis
Tim Bornholtz
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Purpose• Many new technologies are available on
the internet that enable people to publish and edit content without expensive tools or extreme technical knowledge
• Try to give an understanding of what they are and how they can be used in your organization
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Digital Natives• “Our students have changed radically. Today’s
students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach”
• “Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet”- Prensky, 2001
• Students today think of digital resources as we would think of a book or telephone or television– Vital tools for getting information
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The Rest of Us• That leaves the rest of us as “Digital
Immigrants”• We speak an outdated language (that of the
pre-digital age) and are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.”
• Why do we “dial” a number? There is no dial on a telephone
• Who among us prints documents to edit them• We bring someone to our computer to show them a
website instead of sending them the URL
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Web 1.0• Static pages
• Needed a full-time “webmaster” to handle content changes
• Dynamic pages were still read only
• Needed a programmer to make any changes to dynamic pages
• 1989 - 2005
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Web 2.0• People can create their own content.
• Transformative tools– Allowing anyone to do at home what used to
require professionals with expensive equipment.
• Convergence of media – Web, audio, video and more
• “Social Media” sites allow people to share opinions, experiences, and perspectives
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Blogs wikis and podcasts (oh my)
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Blog• Web journal or online diary
– Usually written by one person or a small group of people
– Most blogs provide commentary or news on one topic
– Articles usually link to other blogs or news items
– Readers are able to leave comments
– Some blogs integrate photos or video in addition to text articles
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Blogs in Higher Ed• Opening up classroom walls
• Showing the wider world what is happening– Other students in class
– Parents
– Students in other classes
– Anyone with an internet connection
• Links to relevant articles• Provide a wider audience for students
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Wikis• Site that can be written to by many of people
• Content is the priority, not design• Built in revision control• Why use a wiki
– online classroom pages that can be changed easily
– Put student's work on the web
• Examples– Wikiville – students collaborate with topics of interest
– Wikipedia – online encyclopedia
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Uses of Wikis• Classroom discussion
– List assignments– Discuss curriculum
• Create a community around a specific topic– Community can pool their knowledge
• Developer tool – Software documentation– Maintain enhancement list– Track issues
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Advantages of a Wiki
• Good for writing down quick ideas• Instantly collaborative without emailing
documents• Accessible from anywhere with a
browser• Every page revision is kept• Immediate and empowering – everyone
has a say
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Disadvantages of a Wiki• People can see your half-formed, unsure, or
speculative ideas• Tendency for entries to be messy without
deliberate maintenance• If it is public you may be a target for spam• Need to be reasonably technical to use the
wiki-specific markup• Difficult to enforce content standards and
styles
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RSS Feeds
• XML file for serving frequentlyupdated content
• Content publishers syndicatea feed
• Users subscribe to the feed
• Feed Readers periodically check the syndicated feed for updates
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Podcasts
• A podcast is a media file, audio or video, delivered over the internet using syndicated feeds
• Made popular by Apple with iTunes• Can be played back on portable media
players or computers• Can also be integrated with text or PDFs
for a richer experience
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Podcasts in Higher Ed
• Help students to connect to others
• Provide many different resources for listening
• Take a lesson with you and replay it as many times as you'd like
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Podcasts in Higher Ed (cont)
• Teachers are starting to create lessons as podcasts
• Starting to incorporate student podcasts into the lessons.– Students will take greater care in their work
when there is an audience
• Get in contact with like-minded teachers who are also providing podcasts
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Video• YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video• Anyone with a camera can create, edit,
and upload videos• Videos on many subjects available• Students can produce and upload their
own content• Able to easily integrate videos into blog
postings
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Web 3.0 (end of presentation)• Virtual worlds such as Second Life• The people
who “live” therecreate most everything in the environment
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Second Life– Many schools are using Second Life as an
environment for e-learning
– Creating online tools for learning within the virtual world
– Holding classes for distance learning– Second Life “allows students to experiment with
architectural design, to study monetary policy, and to do sociology research -- to name just a few educational uses -- in an enclosed, relatively risk-free environment” - Chronicle of Higher Education 8/30/2006
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Questions?Tim Bornholtz
(540) 446-8404
• References– Graham Stanley
http://blog-efl.blogspot.com/2006/11/blogs-wikis-podcasts-second-life.html
– Marc Prenskyhttp://marcprensky.com
– Chronicle of Higher Educationhttp://chronicle.com/daily/2006/08/2006083001t.htm