Blogs & Wikis: Business & Education Uses Dr. Joan Vinall-Cox

Business Wikis Education Blogs

Definitions Communications Overview Uses Future

Definitions

Communications Overview

Uses

Future

What is a Wiki? Online collaboration tool Create websites Open editing / creating (Sometimes only to defined users) “ Wiki wiki” means “quickly” in Hawaiian

What is a Wiki?

Online collaboration tool

Create websites

Open editing / creating

(Sometimes only to defined users)

“ Wiki wiki” means “quickly” in Hawaiian

Wikipedia - example

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html

Media Possibilities Text Links Attachments Documents Images Audio Video

Text

Links

Attachments

Documents

Images

Audio

Video

What is a Blog? Web Log weBLOG Frequently updated website Little or no technical knowledge Personal tone Variety of styles Many topics

What is a Blog?

Web Log

weBLOG

Frequently updated website

Little or no technical knowledge

Personal tone

Variety of styles

Many topics

Blog - Example

Media Possibilities Text Links Attachments Documents Images Audio Video

Text

Links

Attachments

Documents

Images

Audio

Video

Blogs Time-sequenced Chronological Discuss & Inform Single page Informal in tone Wikis Iterative Collaborative Inform & Share Multiple pages Objective in tone

Blogs

Time-sequenced

Chronological

Discuss & Inform

Single page

Informal in tone

Wikis

Iterative

Collaborative

Inform & Share

Multiple pages

Objective in tone

The Early Web 1989 - late nineties technical interface

1989 - late nineties

technical interface

HTML FTP

HTML

FTP

The Web as a Medium One-way

One-way

Precursors to Web 2.0 email chat P2P

email

chat

P2P

Technical Innovations WYSIWYG Little or No Coding Forms Pre-built apps

WYSIWYG

Little or No Coding

Forms

Pre-built apps

The Read-Write Web The Social Web

The Read-Write Web

The Social Web

Interest Builds Teachers Educational businesses Businesses at many levels

Teachers

Educational businesses

Businesses at many levels

Web 2.0

Web 2.0

The Power of the Web Life Insurance Costs Drop Precipitously 1996 - Quotesmith

Life Insurance Costs Drop Precipitously

1996 - Quotesmith

From http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/ca.htm

Blogging Styles Authentic “Faux”

Authentic

“Faux”

Business & Blogging Management Employees Marketing Information Dissing Dangers

Management

Employees

Marketing

Information

Dissing

Dangers

Management

From http://www.socialtext.net/bizblogs/index.cgi

From http://blogsurvey.backbonemedia.com/archives/2006/01/83_of_blogging_ceos_have_ghost.html Only 17 % of CEOs write their own blogs

Only 17 % of CEOs

write their own blogs

from http://theconnectionera.blogspot.com/2005/08/corporate-blogging-and-cio.html Corporate blogging Internal blogs directed at employees cannot be accessed beyond the corporate network. External blogs beyond office workers, allow customers and others to become readers.

Corporate blogging

Internal blogs

directed at employees

cannot be accessed beyond the corporate network.

External blogs

beyond office workers,

allow customers and others to become readers.

Connecting with the Public

Marketing

Infomercial?

Information

Product Information

Content as Loss Leader

Gripe Sites

Dissing

Dangers

http://michaelgeist.ca/

The Endangered Web Other nets (rigidity of U.S. control of Domain Names) Business deals (Service Providers playing favorites)

Other nets

(rigidity of U.S. control of Domain Names)

Business deals

(Service Providers playing favorites)

http://thestar.blogs.com/azerb/

Business Wikis http://www.jot.com/wiki/wiki-applications.php

A Wiki About Business

An Education Business Wiki

WYSIWYG Wikis

WikiBooks - Open Source Textbooks

A Course Wiki http://wri330.wikispaces.com/wri330

Wikis for Communication Course Notes Scheduling Sharing class work

Course Notes

Scheduling

Sharing class work

Wikis for Collaboration A learning community working together to create and share knowledge

A learning community

working together

to create and share knowledge

An Assignment Wiki http://www.umbc.edu/bioclass/biol414/wiki/index.php?page=Group_Wiki_Pages

Blogs in Education Communication Sharing experience & ideas Learning Writing as a learning tool

Communication

Sharing experience & ideas

Learning

Writing as a learning tool

RSS Aggregation

RSS

Aggregation

Central to the Blogsphere

Teachers Ask students to blog To explore / discuss To develop written “voice” To create a “learning community”

Ask students to blog

To explore / discuss

To develop written “voice”

To create a “learning community”

Students Their writing seen by their peers Getting responses to what they write The “quiet” have a chance to be heard

Their writing seen by their peers

Getting responses to what they write

The “quiet” have a chance to be heard

Using Blogs & Wikis Wikispaces for course information, communication, and assignment sharing Elgg Community Blog for discussion and file hosting

Wikispaces for course information, communication, and assignment sharing

Elgg Community Blog for discussion and file hosting

Elgg - A Community Learning Space

Blogs Time-sequenced Chronological Discuss & Inform Single page Informal in tone Wikis Iterative Collaborative Inform & Share Multiple pages Objective in tone

Blogs

Time-sequenced

Chronological

Discuss & Inform

Single page

Informal in tone

Wikis

Iterative

Collaborative

Inform & Share

Multiple pages

Objective in tone

Blogs & Wikis Web 2.0 Part of the communication revolution business, education, personal easy & effective They will be used Increasingly and for more purposes

Web 2.0

Part of the communication revolution

business, education, personal

easy & effective

They will be used

Increasingly and for more purposes

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