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About Blogs & Wikis

Use blogs and wikis to get your students thinking, talking, writing, creating, and analyzing knowledge.  These versatile online tools allow students to reflect on their experiences, thoughts, ideas, and conceptualizations with text, images, video, or audio


General Information on Blogs & Wikis

Educational Blogging - EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5, (Sept/Oct 2004): 14-26.

Pedagogical Reasons and Uses for Blogs

Wide Open Spaces - Wikis, Ready or Not - EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5, (Sept/Oct 2004): 16-48

7 Things to Know about Blogs

7 Things to Know about Wikis

Links to Information & Examples of Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasting


Making & Viewing Blogs

Blogger - make your own blog for free (Blogspot)

Bloglines - Set up a "blog watch" and/or "news watch" with RSS feeds

Blogmeister - create classroom blogs


Other Blog Creation and Host Sites

Live Journal - A popular alternative to Blogger

Word Press - Allows you to import from other common blogging sites

Xanga is a community of online diaries and journals

Movable Type - Blogs for business blogging and for professionals

Education Blogs - Blogs in education for teachers and students (K-12 & Higher Education)


Sample Blogs in Education

Blogger (from Google)  

Interact at the Center (CTL)

EDUCAUSE - Connect (blogs, wikis, and more!)  

Into the Blogosphere (rhetoric, community and culture of weblogs)

Blogging in Higher Education

Weblogg-ed - The Read and Write Web in the Classroom  

David Warlick - 2 Cents Worth

Education, Technology, and Integration ideas by Steve Dembo


Wiki Links

PB Wiki

Wet Paint

WikiSpaces

Wikipedia Free Online Encyclopedia 

WikiBooks Free Online Books


Sample Wikis in Education

CTL's Wiki from Threaded Assessment Series  

Class Wiki: Culturas de Espana  

Chemistry with Mr. Olson  

Online Journalism  

Research & Writing 303  

EDTL 303 - Technology Integration Course for Early Elementary Educators  


 
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