Wikis Blogs and Web Publishing Final Presentation

1. WIKIS, BLOGS, & WEB
PUBLISHING
TRISTAN BOYD
SUMMER 2012

2.  Created a Wikispace for
the Souderton High
School Wrestling Team
 Provides the opportunity
to share, collaborate, and
store information about
the wrestling program
 This improves
communication and the
ability to support our team

3.  IGoogle has provided
a one-stop shop for
my news and daily
on-line tools
 Time is always limited
and this resource
saves me time and
provides me the
information I need
 I was also pleasantly
surprised with how
easy the set-up and
manipulation of the
site really was

4.  Google Groups provided a new medium for me to blog with my
students
 This allows all students to have a voice and to find greater
relevance with the course curriculum
 The best feature of Google Groups for myself is that now
students will have the ability to comment on each other’s posts

5.  Creating a Voki was a fun
and useful tool
 I developed it to assist
students navigate my
course website
 Students could also
create a Voki on a
controversial topic from
their own perspective or
that of a citizen

6. MOST USEFUL TOOL
 It is hard to decide which tool will be most useful for
my students. This course allowed me to improve
upon several resources that I already put to use.
The Voki will hopefully make students more
confident and therefore likely to utilize my website,
while the Google Groups will provide a better
opportunity for student discourse and
communication on my blog. For myself, the I-
Google has definitely made my life easier and is the
tool I personally will get the most use from.

7.  To be honest I feel as if the
 I believe that I now have useful
tools I utilized did not create and meaningful tools that I can
too many challenges due to utilize in and out of the
how user friendly they were. classroom.
 As a coach I have a team
website
 However, one minor obstacle I  As a teacher I have improved
faced was recording my Voki upon my blog and course site
in the minimum amount of time  Personally the I-Google will
allotted. better assist me to stay on top
of the news and my personal
interests.

8.  The online learning community was user friendly,
effective, and allowed this experience to be meaningful
 I appreciated the amount of resources available and the
easy and quick access to any and all of my information
in one convenient location
 My projects can be seen by clicking on the image on the
right of slides 2, 4, and 5 of this presentation and I have
previously shared my IGoogle page to you that can be
seen on slide 3
 Thanks again for providing me the resources and forum
necessary for me to develop these tools. I will definitely
put what I have learned throughout this course to use in
my classroom!