1. Teaching with Technology Bootcamp Media Player, iTunes, Blogs & Wikis

2. Blogs
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” ~ Herman Melville

3. Blog Defined
Blog: Online, Web-based journals in the form of frequent, chronological publications of thoughts and ideas, typically within a specific theme or area of interest.

4. Blog: The Real Definition
Blog: An online notebook of your mindless ramblings which others are permitted to read and comment on

6. Blogs: When to Use? When organizing thoughts chronologically
When seeking feedback from others
When speaking on a wide-variety of topics
Note ability to “categorize” a specific post
When wanting complete control over your site

7. Reasons to Blog To be heard To personally engage with a subject
To connect with others and share ideas
To establish a reputation amongst a community
To collect and organize ideas

8. Blogs in the Classroom Reflective learning Journaling
Encourage e-participation
“Cool” Discussion Boards
Encourage personalization expression
Personal ownership of content

9. Blog Options Blogspot.com Blogger.com Wordpress.com Tumblr.com
Posterous.com

10. Wikis
“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” – King Solomon

11. Wiki Defined
A website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor
A website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users

12. Wiki: The Real Definition
The one-stop-shop which gives you both the “Cliff-notes” and Encyclopedia

14. Wikis: When to Use? When addressing a specific topic
When linking to multiple websites
When wanting to majorly edit or rearrange later
When working with multiple users

15. Reasons to Wiki Consolidate research or information
Space for dynamic collaboration
Combine static and interactive information

16. Wikis in the Classroom Group projects Synthesis of semester learning
Collaborative research
Event planning
Updates of rapidly changing information

17. Wiki Options
Pbwiki.com
Wetpaint.com
Wikispaces.com