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The wonderful worlds of Weblogs and Wikis

The wonderful worlds of Weblogs and Wikis. Instructional possibilities and basic how-to’s. Prof. Clare Brett, CTL MT Technology Day, 7 th Oct, 2008. What we are going to do today:. Brief overview of what a weblog and wiki are and how they might connect to the TPCK model

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The wonderful worlds of Weblogs and Wikis

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  1. The wonderful worlds of Weblogs and Wikis Instructional possibilities and basic how-to’s. Prof. Clare Brett, CTL MT Technology Day, 7th Oct, 2008

  2. What we are going to do today: • Brief overview of what a weblog and wiki are and how they might connect to the TPCK model • Their instructional possibilities • Some classroom examples • Making your own wiki and blog Who knows what a weblog or a wiki is and who has one?

  3. TPCK Model

  4. How does TPCK apply here? • Technological knowledge—hands on • Technological pedagogical knowledge—appropriate use of wikis and weblogs in particular instructional contexts • Technological pedagogical content knowledge: choosing particular content and an appropriate technology to maximize or enhance learning.

  5. About Weblogs • Weblogs or blogs are webpages that display posts in reverse chronological order. • Weblog-specific software is available that: • Uses forms for easy content creation and maintenance • Supports multiple media types • Can be personalized • Supports aggregation through RSS** feeds

  6. ***RSS Feeds: does this matter to me? • “Pull” technology—brings information that you select, to you as it becomes available. Allows you to keep up with a variety of different sources of information: news, blogs and other sites you like • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwtmOPdrEL8 The RSS logo Filename extension .rss, .xml

  7. Weblogs: potential • Weblog technology supports: • Filtering and annotating resources • Notetaking • Personal reflection • Bridge between public and private, between reading and writing: Encourage focus on what the text says—close reading of other blogs. • Students can choose their focus—review and response to other’s weblogs, linking, creating connections and distributed communities of shared interest.

  8. Educational Examples of Weblog use • A primary school using a blog as a location for the community: http://www.croft.walsall.sch.uk/ • Blog that displays Primary poetry: http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/sandaigpoets.php • High school course blog, English Literature http://dcsenglish.edublogs.org/ • Clarence Fisher’s talks about his Grade 7 Class http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/2008/09/yes i-do-grade-blog-posts.html

  9. Educational uses of Weblogs • Teachers using weblogs with their students • Issues based--social studies, history, current events: links and commentary to online resources • Student voice--personalizing weblogs with multimedia • Literacy focus--close reading; • Group weblogs--younger students or to get started or to focus on a specific issue • Blog review assignment example: high school/university: http://jilltxt.net/?p=814

  10. Examples of Weblogs • Lots of free web-based blogging environments: http://www.blogger.com • Free for those in education: http://edublogs.org • Educational Links: http://www.downes.ca/ • A bit of weblog history: http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

  11. Date Blog Post Archive of Posts Another Blog Post Posts by Category Anatomy of a Blog

  12. Edublogs.org • There are many weblog applications available. Some are free. This one is specifically set up to encourage weblog use in education. • EDUBLOGS http://www.edublogs.org/ • WordPress Multi-User • Very easy to use at a basic level • Can add authors to single weblog

  13. Hands-on: Make your blog Go to: http://www.blogger.com Follow the 3 steps on the handouts (also on the screen).

  14. Some Things to Try • Pick a Template • Click Presentation • Create a Post • Click Write • View Your Blog • Click <<view site>> beside the Title of your blog • Use the Back button on your browser to get back to Edit mode.

  15. Issues/Challenges in the classroom • Often takes more than a semester to get participation going, and ongoing • Need for appropriate activities • Dealing with technological learning curves • Dealing with learning expectations • Apprehensions about sharing ideas with a “broader” audience • Establishing connections between ideas

  16. References • Westhoff, G. & Westhoff, G. (2005). Using Weblogs to Build Community with Pre-Service Teacher Education Students in the Field. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (pp. 2369-2372). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. • http://petrudeau.blogspot.com/Grade 4 blogs, Oshawa • Christopher D. Sessums :: Weblog :: Blogging and Inquiry-based Teacher Professional Development: Examining relationships between technological design and sociological analysis http://elgg.net/csessums/weblog/13194.html • Building a Community of Practice: A COLLABORATIVE COLLECTIVE SPACE TO DISCUSS AND EXCHANGE IDEAS ON HOW TO USE BLOGS IN ESL/EFLhttp://evo05.blogspot.com/ • Examples of Educator Blogs Onlinehttp://educational.blogs.com/edbloggerpraxis/

  17. PART II • Wiki………

  18. What is a wiki? • Collaborative, open, web-based writing environment, that maintains a history of all changes • E.g. wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org • Anyone can edit the contents of any webpage. • Wikis use a simplified hypertext markup language that allow learners to format text and create hyperlinks between webpages. • You can also use the markup language to refer to pages that do not yet exist, with the expectation that others will later create the content for those pages.

  19. Instructional Value of Wiki’s • Research is emerging • http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/ gives ideas for using wikis with different age groups and subjects • Wikis offer social writing with potential impact because people go back to revise and improve it. • Can offer authenticity and permanence-unlike a term paper seen by more people than the instructor and writer. • The class audience is too varied to simply default to using jargon. • Students also have to think about organization and clarity of expression.

  20. Instructional Value of Wikis • Can offer a model of publication. Development of text is a tacit process usually not evident to outsiders. Wikis potentially offer this view of the process of idea development in writing. • Wikis offer a means of organization, because they have hierarchical relationships possible among pages and to outside resources. • Also because they are not temporally defined (like weblogs for example) there is an underlying assumption of improvability—not static because you can go back and change things

  21. Wiki Resources for Teachers • Google docs is an example of a wiki: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muVUA-sKcc4 • Really good site for ideas and procedures for setting up wikis in classrooms: http://www.wikispaces.com/help+teachers Other wikis: http://www.ikiw.org/ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

  22. Making a wiki-see handout Go to https://www.wikispaces.com/space/create

  23. 2. Click on the “Join Wikispaces now” link. • Follow the instructions to get a username, and click yes to the “make a space” option. Give it a name and decide what level of privacy you want.  • 3. Go to your email where you’ll find the link to log in to your wiki and your login information.  • 4. Change your password (My Account link).  • 5. Pick a template (Click Presentation).  • 6. Create a post (Click Write).  • 7. View your wiki (Click <<view site>> beside title). http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction • Use link to listen to how-to video

  24. And back to TPAK….. • How does the TPCK model apply to Weblogs and Wikis: How do they: 1) support what we are already doing, but in a different way? 2) support learning in new ways (allow us to do something we aren't currently able to do)?

  25. Next Steps • For 2 minutes: Talk to one (or a group) of people here who would be willing to share or develop ideas together about how to implement a wiki or a weblog in a classroom context • Discuss what a reasonable next step might be to implement either a wiki or a weblog in a classroom context available to you. • Share your ideas…with the group

  26. Acknowledgements My thanks to • Wendy Freeman, • Kimberley Mackinnon and • Hedieh Najafi For their contributions to the research, the content and development of slides and support materials for this workshop.

  27. Contacts • The wiki where these materials can be downloaded: http://mttel.wikispaces.com/ • Presenter: Clare Brett, CTL 11-272 • email : cbrett@oise.utoronto.ca • Website: http://grail.oise.utoronto.ca

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