Blogs+&+Wikis

= Blogs & Wikis in Education= At the heart of the Read/Write Web (a.k.a. Web 2.0) are two types of websites, weblogs and wikis. Each are potentially powerful tools for learning. With careful implementation, each can bring learning communities together, extend the classroom beyond four walls,

**Outcomes**:

 * Know difference between a blog and wiki site
 * Explore to build awareness of a variety of uses for each type of web site
 * Learn & explore services to get started
 * Resources to learn more about blogs, wikis and examples to pull ideas from

Using a blog and a wiki, please add your current understandings of each. Click the links below to add your comments and replies.
 * Activity:**
 * [|Current Understandings: Blogs]
 * [|Current Understandings: Wikis]

Differences & Examples
Knowing what tool to use for the right job is essential for achieving learning goals and objectives. Deciding to use a blog or a wiki depends on your specific goals for learning.

Blog All About It
Click the Blog link above to explore and learn more about Blogs.

**Save Trees, Make Wiki**
Click the Wiki link above to explore and learn more about Wikis.

New Understandings
Revisit the Current Understandings: Blogs and Current Understandings: Wikis and add another comment and reply to each indicating how you understanding of blogs or wikis have changed.


 * [|Current Understandings: Blogs]
 * [|Current Understandings: Wikis]

**Time to Get Started**
If you'd like to start a wiki or blog site, we'll take time now to set you up with a site. This will require work outside of this workshop to ready for use, but you could have a fully functional blog or wiki site when you walk out the door.

Please visit either the blog or wiki site to choose a service to begin creating your blog or wiki site.