What to choose? Blogs, Wikis, Nings By Kelley Connolly

Blogs, Wikis, Nings

By Kelley Connolly

Goals for this Workshop "A critical friend is someone who is independent of a project who asks provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." Discuss Share Brainstorm quote url: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/07/critical-friend.html

Levels of Participation (1) Bystander: Reads only (2) Gives Feedback (comments) (3) Joins the community (publishes)

Why Blog? Enables personal-knowledge sharing An opportunity to explore technologies and ideas An opportunity to think, plan and reflect To collaborate with others

Blog Structure Chronicles Entries Tags Categories Repository Posts/Pages

Chronicles Entries

Tags

Categories

Repository

Posts/Pages

Why use Ning? All in one - forums and blogs Personal profiles Profiles Identify experts Topic Focused Web application integration Ease of creation

Power of the wiki Collaborative Revision history- archive Structure defined by project or purpose

Blogging Apps Selecting a wiki Ning in Education EduBlogs 21 Classes Blogger Classroom 2.0 Wiki Ideas

Let’s start sharing.