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Web 2.0 –Blogs & WikisAn Introduction
Carol WalkereLearning Advisor (Learning Technology)
JISC Regional Support CentreScotland North & East
www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk
Regional Support Centre Scotland North & East
Vlogs
RSS Reader
Blogs
Blogger
RSS
What’s it all about?
Syndication
Blogosphere
Wikis
1995
Way back when…
Web 2.0 – The next phase
A content publishing system where entries are made over time. The most recent entry is at the top of the page. Similar in style to a journal.
define:keyword e.g. define:blog
TIP
In Google
What is a blog?
Anatomy of a Blog
Blog Title
One entry – most recent at top
Date stampedEach entry has short, concise title
Can contain multimedia – images, video and audio
Content – can link to other resources with hyperlinksComments
from your blog readers
Readers can subscribe to your blog to get automatic updates
What’s out there?
• Video Blog or Vlog• Photoblog• Podcast*• …
• Personal• Travel• Political• Education• …
By Media Type
By Genre
* Doesn’t necessarily have to be a blog though
Why use a blog?
A reflective diaryA place to organise your thoughtsA collaborative spaceA mechanism for sharing experiencesA means of gaining feedbackYour space on the web…
Communities Computing Construction Fire and Rescue Service Media Studies Employability Access to Life and Leisure
Duncan Gillespie & Robert Brown(Dumfries & Galloway College)
“Supporting the development of e-Portfolios has moved on significantly since involvement in the ISLE project. By using Web 2.0 technologies in a structured and simple way, we have developed staff and student skills, which will equip them for the future and add real value to the educational experience.”
Template for ePortfolio
Intute: health & life sciences blog
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/blog/
Glasgow School of Art – Library Blog
http://gsaartdesign.blogspot.com/
RSC East Midlands: e-safety moodle module
http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=79
A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and Higher Education in the UK to Support Student Learning and Engagement: 26 Case
Studies
http://tinyurl.com/5a8zu3
Is it Complicated?
No!All you do is fill in a form…
…no programming skills required
Where do you find blogs?
Technoratihttp://www.technorati.com
Googlehttp://blogsearch.google.com
Subscribing to a blog
RSS Readers – lots of options– Web-based – Bloglines, Google Reader
Analogy: subscribing to an rss feed can be likened to taking out a magazine subscription
TIP
FREQUENCY
Daily?
Weekly?
Monthly?
IDENTITY
Anonymous? First Name? Full Name? Alias?
VISIBILITY
Private?
Public?
Some Things to Consider…
1. What is the purpose of your blog?2. What about frequency, identitiy, visibility…
Blogs – Hands on
Have a look at some of the examples
Search for some blogs on the topic of your choice using one of the blog search engines
Setting up a blog
Part 1
Part 2
http://tinyurl.com/cawablogs
Setting up a blog
blogger.com wordpress.com
Discussion - Uses
JISC Legal Information Service
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk
JISC Legal is a free information service offering high quality legal information to further and higher education relating to the use of information and communications technologies. We run training events, provide publications, and offer an enquiry service.
Legal Implications – Help
Legal Implications
“Basically for colleges and universities the data protection and other legal issues remain the same for an institution when using blogs, wiki's, podcasts etc as for other media.”
“It is up to universities and colleges to manage the risk as they have to do with other means of communication. Therefore for example Data Protection, AUPs, Copyright Policies, Staff contracts/policies/handbooks etc all have to be updated to ensure that it is understood that these 'new' media are included.”
Source: JISC Legal
Source: JISC Legal
Legal guide from Stanford University at http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/Resources/podcasting.htm
Universities Legal Briefings athttp://www.pinsentmasons.com/media/484810274.htmThe relevant section is the Human Resources section - piece titled 'Blog off! - tackling the risks of blogging‘
For a look at what UK universities are doing see the followingguidelines for students at :
Warwick Universityhttp://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/elab/services/webtools/blogs/terms
University of Sunderland http://myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/myblogs/acceptable_use_of_blogs/
Legal Implications – Help
http://www.web2rights.org.uk/
Web2Rights
JISC infoNet – Social Software
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/social-software
Educause - 7 things you should know about…
http://www.educause.edu/7495
Intute – virtual training suite
intute - vts: business studies (fe)
Wiki is defined as: “A type of web page designed so that its content can be edited by anyone who accesses it, using a simplified mark-up language.”
Wikis – An Overview
Wiki examplesWikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org
Wiki selection toolhttp://www.wikimatrix.org
Set up a free wikiPB Wiki http://www.pbwiki.com
Example http://jiscrsc.pbwiki.com password: blogs3
Wet Paint http://www.wetpaint.com
Wiki pros and cons?
No programming skills required
Easy to update
One version of docs
…
Vandalism
Edit Wars
Ideas can become skewed over time
…
Pros
Cons
pbwiki – access settings
wikis
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Blogs vs Wikis
Blog: It’s your content. No one can change it. Users can comment on your posts (content)*
Wiki: Everyone can (potentially) add to or change the content
*You can turn comments on or off
source: www.gapingvoid.com
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