Blogs and Wikis Rachel Lacy Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio, Inc. December 11, 2008 SOITA Dayton, Ohio

Established over 30 years ago to provide Instructional Television Services to Ohio Schools Eight Agencies serve the educational technology needs of over 1800 Public, JVS, Non-Public and Community Schools in Ohio Ohio’s Ed Tech Agencies Over 2.1 Million Students Served Over 150,000 Educators Served Over 155,000 hours of Professional Development delivered to educators in 2007/2008

Our Services  Instructional television programming and delivery  Teacher guides and supplemental resources for use with instructional media  Distribution of licensed instructional videos  online learning resources  Digital resources including video streaming  Professional development and training programs  Face-to-Face Workshops Mount Vernon and New Boston labs!) offered directly to educators,  On-site professional development for districts  Distance Learning, Webinars and Online Classes

What is Web 2.0? I Didn’t know there was a web 1.0….

The Read/Write Web…..

Collaboration in the Classroom: Working Together=Working Smarter

The Interactive Web The Social Web

What is a Wiki? What is it? Free online writing space Allows multiple authors to add, update, edit The process is the product Ideas? Group projects Manage school and class documents Use as a presentation tool

A slideshow from PB Wiki

Make a free wiki as easily as a Peanut butter sandwich.

A wiki is an easy-to-use free web page that multiple people can edit.

Wiki means Quick in Hawaiian

In the classroom, a wiki is a free tool that empowers every student to participate in group projects.

James has assigned a team research project. What can he do to encourage the students to work together, share resources and create high quality work?

Converse Post ideas Respond Forum Write Publish Comment Create Publish Comment Converse Post Ideas Respond Share Edit Collaborate Engage Blog Wiki Three great ways to communicate with students

“It's so easy to create a site to help guide students along with projects. I have found that it's a good way to make handouts available to students - I just point them at the web address. I post links to my PBwiki sites on Rockford's site so that parents can access project guidelines as well.” Justin Wylie Rockford High School

How can she make certain her online site is off limits to child predators? How can she be sure that her students won’t be drawn onto the web? Mary wants to be sure her students are is protected from the wider internet.

YOU control who sees your wiki You set the password. You choose who participates.

Educator wikis are free and never display advertisements NO ADS

Jamie wants to make certain her students act appropriately on line. Will her students write offensive comments? How can she monitor her students activity?

You have a history of every edit You are notified of every change

No more “dog ate my homework” Edits are time stamped. You know who made changes and when they were made.

Wikis are Free and Easy to set up No IT department is needed!

Simply create a password and begin

Set it up and it works just like typing in Microsoft Word

Just like creating a Word document Easily insert Images and Video Just click and begin

Post a picture or a video in three easy steps Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 – You’re Done!!!

Teachers can make coursework and homework information easily available to both students and parents. With easy to use plugins you can create a calendar.

Quickly create new pages Templates designed with teachers in mind Unlimited pages for free educator wikis!

For more ideas check out the PBwiki educator page. You can find tips, suggestions, templates and a community of fellow teacher users.

Join the more than 135,000 teachers who have used PBwikis for their classrooms, from elementary schools to Stanford and Harvard

Educator wikis are free, fast and ready to use. Create one now at

A Wiki Movie plain-english

Great Wiki Examples and Integration Ideas Examples: Holocaust Page 5th Grade Book Study Wiki Collaborative Novel AvonMagnolia Wiki

What is a blog? What is it? Short for ‘weblog’ “Empty book” Commenting feature Examples: Columbus Academy PD blog AP Calculus 6th Grade Homework blog

Blogs in the Classroom Access to relevant materials Communication with absent students Increased parent involvement Continue discussions outside classroom Q&A with guest speakers Post prompts for writing Publish examples of good student writing

Advantages of Using a Blog Instant publishing Free or little cost Comment features Work for any subject Give everyone a voice Promote ownership of work Reflection on process Comments incite excitement

Questions? Let’s build a blog and wiki