CH3+Blogs,+Wikis+and+GoogleDocs

Chapter 3 - Conferring Through Blogs, Wikis and Collaborative Word Processors

Blogs:

What is a Blog? [|www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutBlogs/156809] [|www.commoncraft.com/blogs] [|www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english]

Sample Blogs: Students 2.0 Blog: [|www.students2oh.org/]

Social Network with built in blogging (companion to this book): [|www.digitalwritingworkshop.ning.com/]

Blog services: Edublogs: [|www.edublog.org/] Class Blogmeister: [|www.classblogmeister.com/] Ning: [|www.ning.com] ePals: [|www.epals.com/] ThinkQuest: [|www.thinkquest.org/]

Wikis:

What is a Wiki? [|www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutWikis/156807] [|www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english]

Wiki service providers: Wikispaces: www.wikispaces.com/ (This is the site you are on right now...) Wetpaint: [|www.wetpaint.com/] PBworks: pbworks.com/ Google Sites: [|www.sites.google.com/]

Sample Wikis: Educational Wikis: [|www.educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/] Best Education Wikis: [|www.wetpaint.com/catagory/Education] Terry the Tennis Ball: [|www.terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com/] 7th Grade English Teacher Wiki: [|www.kabodian7.pbworks.com/]

Collaborative Word Processors:

What is a Collaborative Word Processor? [|www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutColla/156812/] [|www.commoncraft.com/video-googledocs/]

Online Collaborative Word Processors: Goggle Docs: [|www.docs.google.com/]

What about Audio? Audacity: [|www.audacity.sourceforge.net/]

SAmple of a teacher using Audio Feedback: National Writer's Project: [|www.judgememorial.com/sloan/audacity/]

I have used this in my English classroom...it is a wonderful site: []