blogs wiki pd session
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- 1. Online journals (weblogs) & class web sites (wikis)
- Why? Literacy focus
- Encourage reading, discussion, reflective thinking
- Improve writing quality (authentic audience, peer feedback)
- Connect with ideas expressed in other students writing
- Promote ethical publishing (netiquette)
- Students can work at own pace, from school or home
- Usability - Easy as MS Word - little technical knowledge needed
- Students can subscribe to sites using built-in RSS feed
- Engage through use of multimedia (suit range of learning styles)
- Marks stored on Moodle
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- Online journals (blogs): * Individual writing journal * Whole class journal * Post prep tasks * Assignment submission * Exam/assessment resourc e
- Group Website (wiki): * Online textbook * Course materials/assessment * Lesson summaries * Collaborative notes * Research projects * Group editing enables projects with other schools, eg. 1001 Tales w/China& Serbia * Parents can see students work
- 3. Links
- Free web-based wikis without advertising
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- Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
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- Free web-based blogs for education (Australian company)
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- Edublogs: http://edublogs.org
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