Web 2.0 –Blogs & WikisAn IntroductionCarol WalkereLearning Advisor (Learning Technology)JISC Regional Support CentreScotland North & East

Regional Support Centre Scotland North & Eastwww.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk

What’s it all about?WikisBloggerRSSBlogosphereSyndicationRSS ReaderBlogsVlogs

Way back when…1995

Web 2.0 – The next phase

What is a blog?A content publishing system where entries are made over time. The most recent entry is at the top of the page. Similar in style to a journal.TIPdefine:keyworde.g. define:blogIn Google

Anatomy of a Blog

Blog TitleDate stampedEach entry has short, concise titleCan contain multimedia – images, video and audioReaders can subscribe to your blog to get automatic updatesOne entry – most recent at topContent – can link to other resources with hyperlinksComments from your blog readers

What’s out there?By Media TypeVideo Blog or VlogPhotoblogPodcast*…PersonalTravelPoliticalEducation…By Genre* Doesn’t necessarily have to be a blog though

Video Blog or Vlog

Photoblog

Podcast*

…

Personal

Travel

Political

Education

…

Why use a blog?A reflective diaryA place to organise your thoughtsA collaborative spaceA mechanism for sharing experiencesA means of gaining feedbackYour space on the web…

Duncan Gillespie & Robert Brown(Dumfries & Galloway College)“Supporting the development of e-Portfolios has moved on significantly since involvement in the ISLE project. By using Web 2.0 technologies in a structured and simple way, we have developed staff and student skills, which will equip them for the future and add real value to the educational experience.”CommunitiesComputingConstructionFire and Rescue ServiceMedia StudiesEmployabilityAccess to Life and LeisureTemplate for ePortfolio

Computing

Construction

Fire and Rescue Service

Media Studies

Employability

Access to Life and Leisure

Intute: health & life sciences bloghttp://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/blog/

Glasgow School of Art – Library Bloghttp://gsaartdesign.blogspot.com/

RSC East Midlands: e-safety moodle modulehttp://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=79

A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and Higher Education in the UK to Support Student Learning and Engagement: 26 Case Studieshttp://tinyurl.com/5a8zu3

Good Practice Bloghttp://good.group.shef.ac.uk/blog/

Is it Complicated?No!All you do is fill in a form……no programming skills required

Where do you find blogs?Technoratihttp://www.technorati.comGooglehttp://blogsearch.google.com

Subscribing to a blogRSS Readers – lots of optionsWeb-based – Bloglines, Google ReaderTIPAnalogy: subscribing to an rss feed can be likened to taking out a magazine subscription

Web-based – Bloglines, Google Reader

Private? Public?FREQUENCYIDENTITYVISIBILITYSome Things to Consider…1. What is the purpose of your blog?2. What about frequency, identitiy, visibility… Anonymous? First Name? Full Name? Alias? Daily? Weekly? Monthly?

Private?

Public?

Anonymous?

First Name?

Full Name?

Alias?

Daily?

Weekly?

Monthly?

Blogs – Hands on http://tinyurl.com/cawablogsPart 1Have a look at some of the examplesSearch for some blogs on the topic of your choice using one of the blog search enginesSetting up a blogPart 2

Setting up a blogblogger.comwordpress.com

Discussion - Uses

Legal Implications – HelpJISC Legal Information Servicehttp://www.jisclegal.ac.ukJISC Legal is a free information service offering high quality legal information to further and higher education relating to the use of information and communications technologies. We run training events, provide publications, and offer an enquiry service.

Legal Implications“Basically for colleges and universities the data protection and other legal issues remain the same for an institution when using blogs, wiki's, podcasts etc as for other media.” “It is up to universities and colleges to manage the risk as they have to do with other means of communication. Therefore for example Data Protection, AUPs, Copyright Policies, Staff contracts/policies/handbooks etc all have to be updated to ensure that it is understood that these 'new' media are included.”Source: JISC Legal

Source: JISC LegalLegal Implications – HelpLegal guide from Stanford University at http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/Resources/podcasting.htmUniversities Legal Briefings athttp://www.pinsentmasons.com/media/484810274.htmThe relevant section is the Human Resources section - piece titled 'Blog off! - tackling the risks of blogging‘For a look at what UK universities are doing see the followingguidelines for students at :Warwick Universityhttp://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/elab/services/webtools/blogs/termsUniversity of Sunderland http://myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/myblogs/acceptable_use_of_blogs/

Web2Rightshttp://www.web2rights.org.uk/

Guidelines for using external serviceshttp://www.vp.is.ed.ac.uk/

JISC infoNet – Social Softwarehttp://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/social-software

Educause - 7 things you should know about…http://www.educause.edu/7495

Intute – virtual training suite

intute - vts: business studies (fe)‏

Wikis – An OverviewWiki is defined as: “A type of web page designed so that its content can be edited by anyone who accesses it, using a simplified mark-up language.”

Wiki examplesWikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.orgWiki selection toolhttp://www.wikimatrix.orgSet up a free wikiPB Wiki http://www.pbwiki.comExample http://jiscrsc.pbwiki.com password: blogs3Wet Paint http://www.wetpaint.com

Wiki pros and cons?ProsNo programming skills requiredEasy to updateOne version of docs…VandalismEdit WarsIdeas can become skewed over time…Cons

pbwiki – access settings

wikis

Blogs vs WikisBlog: It’s your content. No one can change it. Users can comment on your posts (content)*WikiBlog###!!###!!###!!Wiki: Everyone can (potentially) add to or change the content###!!*You can turn comments on or off

source: www.gapingvoid.com

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