• http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ECAR/SupportingKnowledgeCreati/46110
• "wikis enable any group member to add, delete or modify wiki content"
• "wiki software enables version control"
• There is a "strong need to establish conventions to enable long-term success"
• establishing wiki guidelines and making sure these are followed



• Using Wikipedia as the assignment
• Guidelines to editing wikipedia
• Wikipedia_and_academia
• Examples
• Students in the UK graded on wikipedia assignments
• Assignment project in facebook (includes blog posts and wikipedia)

• Experiences using wikis
• By Hillary Burgess (Rutgers School of Law)
• Wiki's in Burgess' courses
• "“every class is a writing class.”
  
• Several ideas and guidelines from Edutopia
• other interesting wikis to work with: Wikiquote, Wiktionary, Wikinews (which you can use as a substitute to a blog of current events for students)
• Other hosting engines (see what is a wiki)
  

• Wikipedia definition

• Here is the audio description of the definition

• "a collection of digital media files which is distributed over the Internet, often using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers."

• "distinguished from other digital media formats by its ability to be syndicated, subscribed to, and downloaded automatically when new content is added, using an aggregator or feed reader capable of reading feed formats such as RSS or Atom."

• MOBILITY, SUBSCRIPTION & AUTOMATIC DOWNLOAD

• iTunes for example has many podcasts that one can sign-up to.

• So you can actually from your iTunes interface, search for podcasts in the same way that your search for music.

• Podcasts are searchable over the net as well:

• Searching for podcasts through Mediafly

• Searching for podcasts through Podcast.net

• EPN - Educational Podcast Network

• Many ways to produce podcasts

• Recording with a desktop app and then uploading the MP3 file

• Using Gabcast to record podcasts

• Wikipedia definition of blogging

• "A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs."

• "online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption" (reference)

• "Many blogs syndicate their content to subscribers using RSS, a popular content distribution tool."

• Examples:

• Classblogmeister: a blog engine developed for classroom use
• Ms. Andrews class

• Terry Anderson's blog - The virtual Canuck

• How to create a blog
• How to add new components to the blog
• Learning experiences

• Class blogs can have many purposes, such as providing students with posts of current events related to the subject matter. These are tagged and then easily retrieved at the end of the semester for a summative analysis.
• Another possibility through the class blog is to create the blog with a focus on a specific topic, most likely related to current context. For example: on 2008 elections, Google and Microsoft market dispute, etc.
• Class blogs can be edited only by the instructor (more of a push-content model) or as a collaborative class environment.

• Students might be requested to keep a class blog (or even a program blog). It could serve as simple learning log that allows instructors to have a formative assessment of the learning process, with little or a lot of guidance.
• A student post about online interaction
• A student that added the RSS feeds of the class blog into her own blog
• Keeping a classroom post forever...
  
• In many cases, depending on the structure, blogs can serve as e-portfolio tools for a course and/or program
  
• Blogs could be used by groups to keep information about a specific on-going topic or project. It can be used to display the project, given all the components that can be added to it.
  
• The blog can be an assignment, in which students are requested to post entries on specific topics and use their critical thinking, while linking each reflective/analytical post to resources on the web.
• Students might be required to provide comments in other students posts

• Lounge that might keep students connected to the institution and the program
• Graduates share and inspire current students
• Program directors can keep students informed about immediate information, current news in the field, and inform about opportunities of events and jobs.
• The MDE Blog
  

• RSS feeds from other sites
• Polls
• tag clouds
• shared documents
• etc.

• Blogs for Learning

• GOAL: collaborative literature review or annotated bibliography
• STRUCTURE: Students are assigned a research paper or project. One of the steps of this project it to create a literature review and/or an annotated bibliography.
• Students will create a group account in a bookmarking service such as del.icio.us.
• Students will use a specific tagging system to categorize their web-references.
• The tag cloud or the simple link to the their bookmark collection can be easily added to a group blog, or to a class blog.

• The group can generate an RSS feed with the project tag that is either posted on the group blog, or even the class blog.
• The instructor will be able to asses progress at any given time.
• From a collection of references to an annotated bibliography, everything can be done collaboratively and online

• GOAL: A webliography for a course or a class that is an ongoing collaborative effort from an entire class and becomes a resource used in all terms of this course.
• STRUCTURE: This can be an ongoing project, and students my be graded based on their contributions to this online base.
• A webliograpy can be built with ratings and comments for a specific course, shared among sections of this course, updated every term
• Categories according to the course topics might be created to help students in their search
• References to such webliography as part of course content can easily be included from one semester to the other.
• In browsers, such as Flock, bookmarking with your browser immediately allows one to bookmark using a specific tool online.

• Wikipedia definition of "wiki"
• "A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites."

• This is wiki... check the tutorial to see a full explanation of wikis and Wetpaint wikis
  

• Bookmarking
• Bookmarks are Web page locations (URLs) that can be retrieved.
• Browsers hold bookmarks

• Social bookmarking
• Sharing bookmarks online
• Extensive use of tagging for purposes of categorization and searching
• "services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags." (Wikipedia)
• added extra features such as
• ratings and comments
• import and export from browsers
• emailing
• web annotation, and groups or other social network features

• "practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content"

• Tagging

• Folksonomy

• How to
• Learning experiences

• A REALLY cool definition without words (4'30'')
  

and then the response to the COOL video, which is worth watching (3'16''):

• And a not as cool but accurate definition with many words (5'18''):

• Here is the definition given by Google's CEO (1'50''):

• Google docs
• Zoho.com
• Editgrid (spreadsheets online)
• Scribd (share all sorts of documents - the home of iPaper)
• Thinkfree (share and collaborate online)

• Research papers, essays, etc.
• Online slideshows
• Databases
• Spreadsheets

• http://groups.google.com/group/MDE-faculty
• http://mdeblog.blogspot.com
• http://www.flickr.com/groups/mde/
  

• Social media
• "umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words and pictures."
• “wisdom of crowds” to connect information in a collaborative manner.
• different forms, including
• Internet forums,
• message boards,
• weblogs,
• wikis,
• podcasts,
• pictures and
• video.

• "Examples of social media applications are Google (reference, social networking), Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), Facebook(social networking), Last.fm (personal music), YouTube (social networking and video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), and Flickr (photo sharing)."

• Including podcasts as part of the content (inclusion in class blog)

• external sources
• American Public Media
• Languages: ESOL, French, etc.
• iTunesU
• Use iTunes app
• Outside of iTunes
• Digital Podcast
• Podcast Alley
• Other channels in education n Gabcast

• Creating lectures yourself and adding it to your class
• Prof. Nixon (MBA) using Gabcast
• Other hosting services
• MyPodcast
• Gcast (you can also record using the phone)
• Teaching specific skills - Example: teaching music via the Internet

• They start talking about equipment, but one of the most important points made in this presentation is BE PREPARED
• this means you need a full script or something that works as a script
• trying to talk without a script does not work
• if you are interviewing other people
• make sure you ask the questions and let the expert talk
• edit your recording and get rid of the noise, the stuttering and back-and-forth that is not to the point
• Focus on story telling... make it short and to the point. Use editing to get to this.

• http://blog.podcasting.oln.org/ How to create your podcast - a post in a blog about podcasting.
• http://podcasttoolbox.com/ Tips and tools to develop podcasts
• Recently I have tried using Gabcast. This is an online tool where the recording is done through the phone using a 1-800 number. The hosting is done through the Gabcast site. Your will have an account and you can create different channels for different podcasts you maintain.
• Creating podcasts with instructions from iTunes
• Creating podcast tutorial with audio and text