Overview of Workshop 2:

Agenda:

• Create, publish, distribute
• Blogs - Edublogs
• Wikis - Wikispaces / PBWiki / Wetpaint
• Social Bookmarking - Delicious
• Social Sharing - Flickr

• Subscribe, read, re-create
• RSS Aggregators - Bloglines
• Pageflakes

• Collaborate
• Gliffy
• Gabbly

Create, publish, distribute

• a type of website with entries displayed in reverse chronological order (most recent first)
• Archives of previous posts stored (often by month, year)
• Categories: - assigned to posts, allows effective content management for author and reader. A form of personalised micro-content management
• Permalink: Each post in a weblog is assigned a unique URL that facilitates the viewing and/or retrieval of an individual post
• Comments: Allows readers to provide feedback - weblog author can moderate these
• Link Lists: Displayed in the side bars - can be used as useful URLs, lists of other weblogs the author reads - could be viewed as a source of personal recommendations
• Trackbacks and Pings: The trackback feature was designed to provide a method of notification between weblog authors. It is used to notify another weblog author that you have written about a particular post on their weblog - it is a method of person A saying to person B, “This is something you may be interested in.” To do that, person A sends a TrackBack ping to person B. This notification is called a ping – the alert is often received in email format or through the weblog software. This feature is the underpinning process of developing and maintaining dialogue across distributed conversations within a network.
• RSS & Syndication: Most weblogs have the ability to publish content in a XML format known as RSS
• Personalisation of layout: weblogs hosted by a web-based service usually offer a number of template or page designs, called blogskins. These can be easily changed and modified without the need for sophisticated programming and web layout skills. The individualisation of the look and feel permits the weblogger to express their personality and portray an indication of the site purpose to their readers

• easily editable web pages - with levels of access
• based on wiki-text. Each piece of software varies slightly - so spend a little time familiarising yourself.
• History of edits - each page can display a history of edits
• Tagging - most software now includes tagging features
• Rich media - some products now support the inclusion of rich media (video, images etc)
• Comments - most products includea comments or discussion area for each page
• PDF pages - some products can save pages from the wiki into PDF files
• File repository - some products have file storage areas for additional documents
• RSS - some products have RSS capabilities to distribute information. Additionally, some products have capabilities to subscribe to information and display results on the wiki

1. Wikispaces
2. PBWiki
3. Wetpaint

Subscribe, read, re-create