Blogs_Wikis-4-Educators

=Blogs & Wikis for Educators = Dwight Woodley Jason Heiser

What is all the fuss with wiki's and blogs? In this sessions we will explore wiki's and blogging in the classroom and how it can transform your classroom into a collaborative learning environment.
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===Blog is a short form for the term weblog. A weblog is an online journal used to record news and opinions. A Blog allows syndication of articles in the same fashion as a newspaper. It looks like a web site but the information is organized in a series of chronological articles. Is blogging a good tool to use in the classroom? ===

Below are some sites that may help you decide to create a blog or better ways to use a blog.

 * ===Classroom Blogs and Wiki's: [] ===
 * ===Blogs in Education: [] ===
 * ===Blogger.com: [] ===

**Blogs in Plain English**: []
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=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> = =**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Wiki's in the Classroom__ **= ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A wiki is a website where users can add, remove, and edit every page using a web browser. It's so terrifically easy for people to jump in and revise pages that wikis are becoming known as the tool of choice for large, multiple-participant projects. ===

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===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A **wiki** is a page or collection of [|Web pages] designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content (excluding blocked users), using a simplified [|markup language].[|[1]][|[2]] Wikis are often used to create [|collaborative] [|websites] and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia [|Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis.[|[2]] Wikis are used in business to provide [|intranet] and [|knowledge management] systems. [|Ward Cunningham], the developer of the first [|wiki software], [|WikiWikiWeb], originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".[|[3]] ===

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===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Wiki" ( [|/wiːkiː/] ) is a [|Hawaiian] word for "fast".[|[4]] "Wiki Wiki" is a [|reduplication]. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is", but this is a [|backronym].[|[5]] ===

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