Lisa’s Weblog

i found some intresting info on the net on someones elses blog i read through it and found some good info i might add to my blog.

 This person on their blog offers the following justifications for the use of wikis in education:

• Wikis maximize interplay
• Wikis are democratic
• Wikis work in real time
• Wiki technology is text-based
• Wikis permit public document construction, that is, distributed authorship
• Wikis complicate the evaluation of writing
• Wikis promote negotiation
• Wikis permit collaborative document editing, or open editing
• Wikis permit the public to publish – public as publisher
• Wikis make feedback intensely public and potentially durable
• Wikis work on volunteer collaboration
• Wikis endorse particular ways of writing
• Wikis enable complete anonymity.

 THIS IS ANOTHER TAG CLOUD FOR WEB2.0

 WHAT IS A PB WIKI??

Its an easy-to-use web page that mulitple people can edit. its sort of like a whitboard that everyone can add too.

WHY USE PB WIKI.

A wiki is a great tool for everyone to use if you belong to a group for example students and teachers can benefit from using a wiki in a number of ways. The teacher can leave important information for the students to acess on the wiki. the teacher can leave a discussion question up and students can log in and answer it.

You can also oraganise the wiki so you have different sections and its ordered and you can create headings and folders to allow others to acess it and know were to find what they are looking for.

Our group wiki is http://thehed.pbwiki.com/

Working together using this wiki

Think of this wiki as a shared online whiteboard. Our entire group can share information using this wiki, making your research accessible to everyone. Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text. There is a group responsibility to ensure that the quality of our Web 2.0 Project is up there with the best knowledge available.

Group members

• Allan
• Kathryn

Overview of Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is essentially an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity.

It consits of

1. A Platform

• This is browser based – e.g. Internet Explorer or Firefox. (Firefox is preferred because it is free and open software in a constant state of development (Web 2.0), whereas Explorer is owned and comes out in a fixed form and then has updates and upgrades on an irregular basis (Web 1.0))
• It operates on open and collaborative principles
• Communications are the key applications

2. Social Networking

• Personalised and open collaborative knowledge spaces
• Access people as well as knowledge
• Copyright issues exist and have to be dealt with and replaced with a Creative Commons culture
• This is beyond the normal formalities of the classroom and can take place anywhere at any time

3. Read/Write Web

• People are consurmers of content and services
• People and publishers of content and services
• Such people are called Produsers

4. What makes Web 2.0

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Social Tagging – bookmarking, Tag Clouds
• Sharing sites
• Podcasts
• Mashups
• Aggregators
• Ubiquitous connectivity