Thursday, November 22, 2007

Researcher Track 1D: Leishman

Wikis, Blogs, Aggregators and Office 2.0—Democratising the Student-Learning Process, by Mike Leishman



Mr Leishman showed us how wikis can be used in the classroom. I was first introduced to the use of wikis in the classroom by my ICT professor Dr Ashley Tan in NIE. We did practically everything on our class wiki page, and it worked really well. It includes an element of collaboration that blogs don't have.

I'm really curious about Scratch. It is a programming language that lets you create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art, and share it online as well. I'm downloading it right now. :)

Check out the cool links below.

Links

wikis
pbwiki
wikispaces

programming language
scratch

blogs
tumblr
blogger

aggregators (great for tracking students' blogs)
pageflakes
newsgator
(I like protopage)

office 2.0
zoho
google docs

3 comments:

LOH Kwai Yin said...

Have used wikispaces and know that we can upload files quite easily (for sharing).

Have also be using blog. Not aware if there's any blog that allow us to upload files (for others to download) without tapping on another platform or application. Does tumblr come with such feature? or any recommendation?

W401 Instructor said...

In reply to loh ky: You can try EduBlogs (http://www.edublogs.org).

This blog service provider had educational use specifically in mind. You have 100MB of storage space and the ability to create as many static pages as you want.

Anonymous said...

wow.. edublogs is pretty cool!