Teaching with technology: Blogs and wikis
This page is based on a Teaching with Technology Forum held in August 2007 across all three campuses by videoconference.
Forum agenda:
- What are blogs and wikis?
- How they are being used in higher education - both at UTAS and further afield
- How to get access to your own blog or wiki service
- What blog and wiki features will be available in WebCT Vista 4.2?
Couldn't make it but would like to know what happened?
Don't worry if you were unable to attend the session, we did record it and it is available below.
- Blog and Wiki product and technology overview (link to audio file in Lectopia - use Quicktime option)
- Case studies and examples of blog and wiki usage at UTAS (link to audio file in Lectopia - use Quicktime option)
- Overview of products currently available to UTAS Staff (link to audio file in Lectopia - use Quicktime option)
For more information on CALT's program of workshops http://www.utas.edu.au/calt/activities.html
To find out more:
Blogs
The basics
- So what is a blog? – see Blogs Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
- 7 things you should know about Blogs [PDF] – EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
Using blogs in education
- Edublogs – an Australian site based on WordPress that offers free accounts for personal users in education as well as an enterprise solution for educational institutions – http://edublogs.org
- EdNA groups – services are free to organisations that are part of the education and training community – http://www.groups.edna.edu.au
- Educational use of blogs – Reflecting, Writing and Responding: Reasons Students Blog [PDF] – http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3010.pdf
Techniques and strategies
- Blogtalk downunder conference papers – http://incsub.org/blogtalk/?page_id=38
UTAS documentation and information
Example blogs
- University of Sydney blogs – http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/support/index.shtml
- University of Warwick blogs – http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/
- Law in the Court of Public Opinion (Harvard) – http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/
- Music Theory 1 (Oakland University) – http://www.cranbrookcomposers.com/theory/
Wikis
The basics
- So what is a wiki – see Wikis Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
- 7 things you should know about wikis [PDF] – EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
Educational use of wikis
- Can wikis be useful for learning? [PDF] – http://www.qiconcepts.co.uk/pdf/Can%20Wikis%20be%20useful%20for%20learning.pdf
Techniques and strategies
- Using wikis in Education – http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/edit/index.php?title=Using_wiki_in_education
UTAS documentation and information
Example wikis
- Introduction to Digital Environments for Learning (University of Edinburgh) – http://www.malts.ed.ac.uk/idel/assignment/wiki/000008.html
- A million penguins (De Montfort University) – http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Welcome
- Visual design tutorial (Trinity College Dublin) – http://nearlythere.com/cgi-bin/design/wiki.cgi
- Wikiversity – http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page