Wikis, Blogs and Furls

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Wikis, Blogs and Furls

• Welcome to Web 2.0, lets interact!

With permission from Debbie Bohanan
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Wikis

• Wikiwiki is Hawaiian for quick.
• According to Wiktionary, a wiki (plural wikis)
  is a collaborative website which can be directly
  edited by anyone with access to it.

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Wikis

• According to Wikipedia, A wiki is a web
  application designed to allow multiple authors to
  add, remove, and edit content. The multiple
  author capability of wikis makes them effective
  tools for mass collaborative authoring.
  Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is one of the
  best known wikis.

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Examples of Wikis

• Discover America is a wiki created last summer in
  D.C. at the DEN National Leadership Conference.
• The Landmark Project by David Warlick
• Weblogg-ed Presentations has information about
  wikis and examples.

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Where can I create a wiki?

• PBwiki is a free site we use in FDEP for creating
  wikis.
• Wikispaces is another free site to create simple
  web pages.

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Wikis in Education?

• The Science of Spectroscopy is a wiki that
  explains how to use a wiki in education and
  provides links to create a wiki.
• Using Wiki in Education an online book with case
  studies
• Curriki Global Education Learning Community

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Wikis in Education

• Check out the article Teaching and learning
  online with wikis from the School of Information
  Technology in Australia.
• Webpage Creation Blogs Wikis, Video Blogging
• Will Richardsons Weblogg-ed Presentaiton Links

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Blogs

• According to Wikipedia, A blog (a portmanteau of
  web log) is a website where entries are written
  in chronological order and displayed in reverse
  chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a
  verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a
  blog.

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Examples of Educational Blogs

• Discovery Educator Network
• Alan November Weblog
• Teach42.com
• The Fischbowl
• Tuesdays with Karen

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Examples of Educational Blogs

• Tie4teachers
• Will Richardson
• Kathy Schrocks Kaffeeklatsch
• Technorati
• David Warlick

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Furls

• Wikipedia states, Furl (from File Uniform
  Resource Locators) is a free social bookmarking
  website (furl.net) that allows members to store
  searchable copies of webpages and share them with
  others. Every member receives 5 gigabytes of
  storage space. The site was founded by Mike Giles
  in 2003, and purchased by LookSmart in 2004.

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Whats Social Bookmarking?

• Wikipedia definition of Social bookmarking is a
  way for internet users to store, classify, share
  and search Internet bookmarks.

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Examples of Social Bookmarks

• Bloglines
• del.icio.us
• Diigo
• Furl

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Examples of Social Bookmarks

• Netvouz
• Newsvine
• Reddit
• Sitebar

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Web 2.0

• Welcome to the new version of the web.
• Web 2.0 is the read, write web.
• Our students are ready, are you?

With permission from Debbie Bohanan