A blog is a kind of e-folio or a web site where texts or articles are collected periodically. The texts are updated by different authors that are interested on the topic of the blog. Blog are useful to create journals about a research or an activity that are in continuo changing, and it is collaborative because it has the possibility to allow users to write their comments and relevant information useful for the development of the topic that is being developed in the blog.
Benefits of blogs
• Blogs are easy to create.
• Expensive software are not required.
• Learners can be users only by signing up to blog providers (Blogger, wordpress, typepad , and others.).
• The steps to follow in order to create and update blogs are understandable for the whole population.
• Blogs are easy to maintain even online.
• Instructions are clear to create a post, edit post, change blog template, customize your blog and change blog settings.
• Blogs automatically move your newer posts at the top and the organization is easier.
• Blogs allow teachers to interact with their students and give them feedback.
• Blogs are for free.
What is a wiki?
A wiki is a web site that offers much information about different topics for different navigators and interests. The pages of a wiki can be updated and edited by multiple voluntaries through the web navigator. Participants of a wiki can create, modify or delete content of a shared text or article. Besides wikis offer the possibility to collaborate with members of a community to write clear and complete information about a specific issue and also to create link to useful webpages that can provide relevant information.
Benefits of wikis
• Any number of users can post, edit and sort ideas and tangents for a project.
• Learners and teachers can organize information online.
• Learners as well as teachers have access to all the information from anywhere just with a computer and internet connection.
• Wikis are good for project where collaboration is a key aspect to develop it.
• Wikis are useful to archive information and put it to the disposition of several learners that need access to the same information.
• Wikis can connect learners of a specific educational institution that work in different departments but that are interested in the information provided in the wiki.
References:
- Downes, S. (2004) Educational Blogging, Educause Review. Retrieved from
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0450.pdf or
http://www.masscue.org/publications/archive/educational_blogging.pdf
[Available as an E-resource]
- Lamb, B. (2004) Wide Open Spaces. Wikis Ready or Not, Educause Review.
Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0452.pdf [Available
as an E-resource]
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