Wiki????

The following video gives an overview of what Wikis are, and touches on their possible educational uses.



The following links are great tools to learn more about Wikis and their uses. The final link is to an actual wiki that will be used in the upcoming year as part of a telecollaborative assignment between schools.

http://www.wikipedia.com/
http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/edit/index.php?title=Using_wiki_in_education
http://www.ravid.org/gilad/wikisym2006.pdf

http://tpgreen.wikispaces.com/

What is a blog????

Hello everyone. What is a blog you ask, and how can it be used in the educational system? I'm glad you asked, some answers may be in the video that follows



Hopefully next time I can film my video without the glasses, but forgive me, it was my first time! For additional information on what a blog is, how to set a blog up, their uses educationally, and almost anything else you could ask for, visit the following websites.

Useful links:
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/timesaver0501
http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/blogs.htm#Background
http://www3.essdack.org/socialstudies/blogs.htm

Welcome to my Blog!

I hope I am not the only Blogger here who is going to be getting Fired Up! over the next few weeks. Feel free to join me in my ventures through Web 2.0 technologies and applications.