www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_KnC2EIS5w
Google sites is an easy and free way to create and set up your own website. With Google Sites, basically all the work is done for you. There is a prompt for all your needs. You can easily add a title. Change the font in any way just like a document. You can add links within your text just by highlighting a word and clicking on links. You can also upload photos and videos to your website. Google Sites first originated as JotSpot by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer in February of 2006. Later that year, Google acquired it and released Google Sites on February 28, 2008 using the technology from JotSpot. Google Sites can be useful for a variety of users. I would guess that it is most useful to small business users who don’t want to fork out a lot of money, but have some technical abilities. It is a great way to publicize their business. It can also be useful for non-profit organizations to help circulate news about their association. Teachers can also find this a very useful tool. They can use it as means of communication between teacher, students, and parents. One actual instance I’ve seen teachers use it effectively is my son’s teacher who created a classroom website. On it, she had the daily lessons, just in case your student was absent that day. It had a link to any homework assignments or worksheets. It also had information about what was to come.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Google Docs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPjJK6LZdM&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7y7NafWXeM&feature=channel
Google Docs came from two separate products, Writing documents was launched in August 2005 and Spreadsheets, which was launched in August 2006. Google docs are similar to a regular word document on your computer. You can type, edit, and save these documents; the biggest difference is is that you can save these to the internet not just your computer. This way you can access it from any computer that has internet access. You can also share the documents with other users and allow them to edit it as well. This can be a great tool for those who write and edit documents frequently, so there’s no need for email or copy and paste. Teacher’s will enjoy this program because they can allow their students to write in these documents, post them, and have fellow classmates revise them and give pointers on how they can improve their essay. The students are able to get those remarks and revise their paper to something with improvement. Having the students read each other’s documents, puts an added pressure on them to do a better job. Also giving the parents the opportunity to see their child’s work is a great tool for their teachers to have and show how their students are progressing. This also eliminates the use of paper and filing that teachers must do, and saves the planet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7y7NafWXeM&feature=channel
Google Docs came from two separate products, Writing documents was launched in August 2005 and Spreadsheets, which was launched in August 2006. Google docs are similar to a regular word document on your computer. You can type, edit, and save these documents; the biggest difference is is that you can save these to the internet not just your computer. This way you can access it from any computer that has internet access. You can also share the documents with other users and allow them to edit it as well. This can be a great tool for those who write and edit documents frequently, so there’s no need for email or copy and paste. Teacher’s will enjoy this program because they can allow their students to write in these documents, post them, and have fellow classmates revise them and give pointers on how they can improve their essay. The students are able to get those remarks and revise their paper to something with improvement. Having the students read each other’s documents, puts an added pressure on them to do a better job. Also giving the parents the opportunity to see their child’s work is a great tool for their teachers to have and show how their students are progressing. This also eliminates the use of paper and filing that teachers must do, and saves the planet.
Social Bookmarking
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=social%20bookmarking&rlz=1R2SKPB_enUS337&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
Social bookmarking was first developed in 1996. It was a way to keep track of all the websites you found interesting or of use. Because there are so many websites out there that you have searched and found useful, someone came up with the idea to help you keep track of all these websites in an orderly fashion. When you find a website that you like or want to use in the future, you save it in a “folder” on the internet by clicking “tag”. This then saves it in your folder, but it also organizes it for you by letting you at key words about the page to help you search for it later. What makes this type of bookmarking useful is that it is not just available to you. It is social, meaning anybody in a social group can look up the websites you’ve saved to help them. This becomes very useful to those who use the internet quite frequently to research various things. They can trust the search of a colleague and look at the websites they have already bookmarked. It is also useful for teachers who often search the internet for the same things such as lessons. Once a teacher has saved these in their folder, they never have to search the internet for them again. Now all the teachers in his social group can have access to the same websites that he uses for his class.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=social%20bookmarking&rlz=1R2SKPB_enUS337&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
Social bookmarking was first developed in 1996. It was a way to keep track of all the websites you found interesting or of use. Because there are so many websites out there that you have searched and found useful, someone came up with the idea to help you keep track of all these websites in an orderly fashion. When you find a website that you like or want to use in the future, you save it in a “folder” on the internet by clicking “tag”. This then saves it in your folder, but it also organizes it for you by letting you at key words about the page to help you search for it later. What makes this type of bookmarking useful is that it is not just available to you. It is social, meaning anybody in a social group can look up the websites you’ve saved to help them. This becomes very useful to those who use the internet quite frequently to research various things. They can trust the search of a colleague and look at the websites they have already bookmarked. It is also useful for teachers who often search the internet for the same things such as lessons. Once a teacher has saved these in their folder, they never have to search the internet for them again. Now all the teachers in his social group can have access to the same websites that he uses for his class.
Social Media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfBGfP_zdxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQPe8bNnjx4&NR=1
Chris Shipley founded the term “social media” at a BlogOn conference in 2004. Social media focused on the business side of things and was used to build communities through communicating through blogs, wikis, and social networking. Social media is a great tool for advertising substance that may be important to your community and allows for businesses to share ideas. It can also be used for advertising special events and talking about what may have been successful through social media. People can share worldly events that we don’t about through our local media. Social media is also used for online schooling for students who can go to school in front of their computers, and participate when it’s continent to the student. Social media has help us with how we learn, find jobs, and advertise with our communities which makes us smarter of the world around us. Teachers can utilize this system by communicating school curriculum and posting discussions that students can reply and use this for a platform of communication. Also teachers are able to download personal video media or video blogging. Different varieties of options that a teacher can venue with media source as this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQPe8bNnjx4&NR=1
Chris Shipley founded the term “social media” at a BlogOn conference in 2004. Social media focused on the business side of things and was used to build communities through communicating through blogs, wikis, and social networking. Social media is a great tool for advertising substance that may be important to your community and allows for businesses to share ideas. It can also be used for advertising special events and talking about what may have been successful through social media. People can share worldly events that we don’t about through our local media. Social media is also used for online schooling for students who can go to school in front of their computers, and participate when it’s continent to the student. Social media has help us with how we learn, find jobs, and advertise with our communities which makes us smarter of the world around us. Teachers can utilize this system by communicating school curriculum and posting discussions that students can reply and use this for a platform of communication. Also teachers are able to download personal video media or video blogging. Different varieties of options that a teacher can venue with media source as this.
Social Networking
http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/04/myspaceforschool
http://www.articlesbase.com/web-design-articles/what-makes-social-networking-websites-so-popular-386451.html
Social networking started in 1985 when The WELL began to bring communities together by creating chat rooms to share personal information with each other. Social networking focused on personal homepages that gave personal information for their viewers and broadened social communication. Now days MySpace and Facebook are the fastest growing networking companies today. Some negative effects that social networking has had is, identity theft and more and more teenagers have been using these sites and can be dangerous. These social networking systems are helpful in many ways, such as creating your own community of friends or family and this creates a simple way of talking with each other. Also these sites such as Facebook, MySpace, or Bebo are free to use which makes these social networking sites popular. Social Networking can be useful for teachers because they can create an online discussion that people can participate in and open the minds for communicating. Also teachers can produce ways that they can allow students to communicate outside of the classroom to produce communication between a particular group, or school. I think that a teacher has minimal use from these social networking services because teachers don’t have the time to keep up with all the demands that these sites need. I think that a personal quote or a weekly discussion that the students can participate in is all that a teacher can realistically do with a site like this.
http://www.articlesbase.com/web-design-articles/what-makes-social-networking-websites-so-popular-386451.html
Social networking started in 1985 when The WELL began to bring communities together by creating chat rooms to share personal information with each other. Social networking focused on personal homepages that gave personal information for their viewers and broadened social communication. Now days MySpace and Facebook are the fastest growing networking companies today. Some negative effects that social networking has had is, identity theft and more and more teenagers have been using these sites and can be dangerous. These social networking systems are helpful in many ways, such as creating your own community of friends or family and this creates a simple way of talking with each other. Also these sites such as Facebook, MySpace, or Bebo are free to use which makes these social networking sites popular. Social Networking can be useful for teachers because they can create an online discussion that people can participate in and open the minds for communicating. Also teachers can produce ways that they can allow students to communicate outside of the classroom to produce communication between a particular group, or school. I think that a teacher has minimal use from these social networking services because teachers don’t have the time to keep up with all the demands that these sites need. I think that a personal quote or a weekly discussion that the students can participate in is all that a teacher can realistically do with a site like this.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Virtual Classrooms
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_education
www.wiziq.com/.../Learn-Teach-live-Virtual-Classroom.aspx
There are many advantages to virtual classrooms. For one, a student is able to take one on their own time like the girl who was competing to be a world champion ice skater. It was difficult for her to practice after school so now she is able to practice during the day and take classes via the internet at night when it’s convenient for her. It also fits the schedules of many college students who find working full-time and having a family plus going to school very difficult. I know for me, I can pick up my computer at night when all the kids are in bed and complete my work when it best suits me. Another advantage of virtual classrooms that I hadn’t thought about is that it offers a much bigger curriculum to its students. Some high schools don’t have the resources to offer as many electives for their students, so by adding virtual classrooms, they are able to offer many more interesting classes. Many students don’t do well in a teacher-student classroom environment. Another advantage of virtual classrooms is that it can allow those students a more comfortable environment to work in. Some disadvantages of virtual classrooms include not have that real person interactions. They are less personal. Some virtual classrooms don’t offer immediate feedback from the instructor when you need it. As a teacher of a virtual classroom, I would not want my students calling me until 10:00 in the pm. I think the video shows a very positive side to virtual classrooms in the public schools. I had no idea that they used virtual classrooms in public school, but I think that they use them in a very productive manner. I don’t feel that we should progress to an all virtual classroom world. I feel we need that person-person interaction that humans need. To have both would be ideal.
www.wiziq.com/.../Learn-Teach-live-Virtual-Classroom.aspx
There are many advantages to virtual classrooms. For one, a student is able to take one on their own time like the girl who was competing to be a world champion ice skater. It was difficult for her to practice after school so now she is able to practice during the day and take classes via the internet at night when it’s convenient for her. It also fits the schedules of many college students who find working full-time and having a family plus going to school very difficult. I know for me, I can pick up my computer at night when all the kids are in bed and complete my work when it best suits me. Another advantage of virtual classrooms that I hadn’t thought about is that it offers a much bigger curriculum to its students. Some high schools don’t have the resources to offer as many electives for their students, so by adding virtual classrooms, they are able to offer many more interesting classes. Many students don’t do well in a teacher-student classroom environment. Another advantage of virtual classrooms is that it can allow those students a more comfortable environment to work in. Some disadvantages of virtual classrooms include not have that real person interactions. They are less personal. Some virtual classrooms don’t offer immediate feedback from the instructor when you need it. As a teacher of a virtual classroom, I would not want my students calling me until 10:00 in the pm. I think the video shows a very positive side to virtual classrooms in the public schools. I had no idea that they used virtual classrooms in public school, but I think that they use them in a very productive manner. I don’t feel that we should progress to an all virtual classroom world. I feel we need that person-person interaction that humans need. To have both would be ideal.
Henry Jenkins on New Media
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media
whatsnewmedia.org/
New media refers to new technological ways of communicating generally using digital resources that have come out in the late 20th century. Examples of new media include the internet, websites, computer games, etc. Henry Jenkins is the director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT College. Henry Jenkins continually studies media and maps it’s progression through our society. He obviously studies the different types of media sources and shares them among his students. He is qualified to discuss learning with new media because, for one, it is his job to know everything about it. Secondly, he has a classroom and students of his own that rely on his knowledge to educate them about the subject. Two key points that (Dr.) Jenkins makes in his video are that our schools are doubly failing and that teachers need to stop being frightened and willing to use technology in the classroom. I agree with Dr. Jenkins when he talks about our schools doubly failing, first when we don’t allow those students who are technological savvy outside the classroom to continue their growth in the classroom and secondly when we don’t provide a technological environment for those students who don’t have access to technology outside of the classroom. All students should have access to technology inside the classroom. I also agree with Dr. Jenkins when he asserts that teachers need to stop being scared to use technology in the classroom because they feel they might lose control of their classroom. These teachers need to be willing to admit that it is something new, but be willing to find help that is out there and use the technology.
whatsnewmedia.org/
New media refers to new technological ways of communicating generally using digital resources that have come out in the late 20th century. Examples of new media include the internet, websites, computer games, etc. Henry Jenkins is the director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT College. Henry Jenkins continually studies media and maps it’s progression through our society. He obviously studies the different types of media sources and shares them among his students. He is qualified to discuss learning with new media because, for one, it is his job to know everything about it. Secondly, he has a classroom and students of his own that rely on his knowledge to educate them about the subject. Two key points that (Dr.) Jenkins makes in his video are that our schools are doubly failing and that teachers need to stop being frightened and willing to use technology in the classroom. I agree with Dr. Jenkins when he talks about our schools doubly failing, first when we don’t allow those students who are technological savvy outside the classroom to continue their growth in the classroom and secondly when we don’t provide a technological environment for those students who don’t have access to technology outside of the classroom. All students should have access to technology inside the classroom. I also agree with Dr. Jenkins when he asserts that teachers need to stop being scared to use technology in the classroom because they feel they might lose control of their classroom. These teachers need to be willing to admit that it is something new, but be willing to find help that is out there and use the technology.
Online Photosharing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_sharing
www.smugmug.com/
Online photo sharing started in the 1990s as a way for photo companies to allow you to order and print your photos from the internet. It then turned into a service that allowed you to upload all your photos to the internet as a way to keep them safe just in case your computer had a fatal meltdown. Later it developed into a way to share your photos with family and friends by allowing them to go to your link and simply clicking through your photos. Now you can make it a public viewing session by allowing anybody to view your photos. This way of sharing your photos is useful because now you don’t have to order and print your photos, then spend money mailing them to grandma for her to pick out the ones she likes and store the ones she doesn’t like. Now you can just have her upload your link to the photos, view all the photos and only print out the ones she likes and leave the rest on the website. It also saves a lot of paper, ink, and storage room. This could be a very useful tool for teachers to use in the classroom as well. This could relate to the constructivist school of learning because the students relate the new information to the information they already know. Teachers can use online photo sharing when going on a fieldtrip to the National Museum of Science. They can snap digital photos of their time there and can later view those photos in class and recap on what the students have learned. They can also share these photos with other schools who do not have the resources to take a fieldtrip.
www.smugmug.com/
Online photo sharing started in the 1990s as a way for photo companies to allow you to order and print your photos from the internet. It then turned into a service that allowed you to upload all your photos to the internet as a way to keep them safe just in case your computer had a fatal meltdown. Later it developed into a way to share your photos with family and friends by allowing them to go to your link and simply clicking through your photos. Now you can make it a public viewing session by allowing anybody to view your photos. This way of sharing your photos is useful because now you don’t have to order and print your photos, then spend money mailing them to grandma for her to pick out the ones she likes and store the ones she doesn’t like. Now you can just have her upload your link to the photos, view all the photos and only print out the ones she likes and leave the rest on the website. It also saves a lot of paper, ink, and storage room. This could be a very useful tool for teachers to use in the classroom as well. This could relate to the constructivist school of learning because the students relate the new information to the information they already know. Teachers can use online photo sharing when going on a fieldtrip to the National Museum of Science. They can snap digital photos of their time there and can later view those photos in class and recap on what the students have learned. They can also share these photos with other schools who do not have the resources to take a fieldtrip.
Podcasting
www.podcastalley.com/
learninginhand.com/podcasting/
Podcasting is a term first coined by a man named Ben Hammersley in an article that he wrote for The Guardian in 2004. It is a way of viewing new shows at a time that is convenient for you instead of having to waste time in front of the TV. These can also be done by amateurs using only a video recorder and access to the internet. You can share your information to anybody interested in it on the internet. It is basically videos downloaded from the internet that you can take and watch anywhere. Podcasts are very useful when wanting to do a D-I-Y project. You can search the internet for videos containing your desired project and most likely, you’ll find dozens of videos that show you how to do it. It is also very useful in the classroom. A teacher can search almost any lesson they want to teach their students and will find numerous teachers who have already taught that lesson and were kind enough to record it and share it on the internet. Teachers may also create their own podcasts with their students and post it on the internet. Podcasting can also relate to the constructivist school of learning because by using the strategies of another teacher to teach again what you may have already taught your students, is a piggy back on what they have already learned from you. I think it is very important to expose your students to several different ways of learning things.
learninginhand.com/podcasting/
Podcasting is a term first coined by a man named Ben Hammersley in an article that he wrote for The Guardian in 2004. It is a way of viewing new shows at a time that is convenient for you instead of having to waste time in front of the TV. These can also be done by amateurs using only a video recorder and access to the internet. You can share your information to anybody interested in it on the internet. It is basically videos downloaded from the internet that you can take and watch anywhere. Podcasts are very useful when wanting to do a D-I-Y project. You can search the internet for videos containing your desired project and most likely, you’ll find dozens of videos that show you how to do it. It is also very useful in the classroom. A teacher can search almost any lesson they want to teach their students and will find numerous teachers who have already taught that lesson and were kind enough to record it and share it on the internet. Teachers may also create their own podcasts with their students and post it on the internet. Podcasting can also relate to the constructivist school of learning because by using the strategies of another teacher to teach again what you may have already taught your students, is a piggy back on what they have already learned from you. I think it is very important to expose your students to several different ways of learning things.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
World Wide Web
www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web.html
www.w3.org/WWW/
The World Wide Web, also known as WWW, was first developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1980 when he needed a resource that would allow him and his colleges at CERN to communicate with each other using a common database. Then in 1984, he realized that he needed a common ground to communicate amongst others around the world and together he and Robert Cailliau wrote a proposal seeking investment into his idea that was published in 1990, but no one was interested. After developing what he needed on his own, Berners-Lee published the first post on the now publicly available internet service on August 6, 1991. The internet is useful in more ways than I can name. It is useful for shopping, researching, entertainment, recreation, marketing, and much more. It allows people to shop for clothing, electronics, books, furniture, cars and more from the comfort of their own home. It allows students to have access to the largest research databases that are reputable and published. Teachers use it in the classrooms as ways to research topics of the curriculum. Elementary schools use the web for their reading programs such as Accelerated Reader, which is accessible from my own home. My son had to create his own blog when he was in fourth grade. This would fall in the category of the constructivist school of learning because he was able to draw on the information he already new about computers and keyboarding to help him with his blog.
www.w3.org/WWW/
The World Wide Web, also known as WWW, was first developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1980 when he needed a resource that would allow him and his colleges at CERN to communicate with each other using a common database. Then in 1984, he realized that he needed a common ground to communicate amongst others around the world and together he and Robert Cailliau wrote a proposal seeking investment into his idea that was published in 1990, but no one was interested. After developing what he needed on his own, Berners-Lee published the first post on the now publicly available internet service on August 6, 1991. The internet is useful in more ways than I can name. It is useful for shopping, researching, entertainment, recreation, marketing, and much more. It allows people to shop for clothing, electronics, books, furniture, cars and more from the comfort of their own home. It allows students to have access to the largest research databases that are reputable and published. Teachers use it in the classrooms as ways to research topics of the curriculum. Elementary schools use the web for their reading programs such as Accelerated Reader, which is accessible from my own home. My son had to create his own blog when he was in fourth grade. This would fall in the category of the constructivist school of learning because he was able to draw on the information he already new about computers and keyboarding to help him with his blog.
Web Search Strategies
http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/
www.monash.com/spidap1.html
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/.../Strategies.html
Because the web has millions of websites, it could be virtually impossible to find the information you are looking for. To help with this process, there are services out there that search the web for you called search engines. These search engines scan each web page out there for your key words. Once they have compiled all the results that contain the key words you’re looking for, they display them in the order of the most popular. To narrow your search, you could add more key words. Examples of these search engines are Google.com, Bing.com, dogpile.com, webcrawler.com, and lycos.com. These search engines can be very useful when you are trying to find something on the web, but don’t know the exact web address. It can relieve a lot of frustration and stress and also save you tons of time. Teachers use web search engines extensively to find lesson plans on the internet. For example, if I was researching how to teach division, I could type in “division lessons” in the search engine.
www.monash.com/spidap1.html
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/.../Strategies.html
Because the web has millions of websites, it could be virtually impossible to find the information you are looking for. To help with this process, there are services out there that search the web for you called search engines. These search engines scan each web page out there for your key words. Once they have compiled all the results that contain the key words you’re looking for, they display them in the order of the most popular. To narrow your search, you could add more key words. Examples of these search engines are Google.com, Bing.com, dogpile.com, webcrawler.com, and lycos.com. These search engines can be very useful when you are trying to find something on the web, but don’t know the exact web address. It can relieve a lot of frustration and stress and also save you tons of time. Teachers use web search engines extensively to find lesson plans on the internet. For example, if I was researching how to teach division, I could type in “division lessons” in the search engine.
Blogs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)
Web logs, also known as Blogs are a way of broadcasting your personal news to anyone interested in hearing about it. They are personal web pages that allow you to display your news in the order that you post them. After you have posted your news, others that read it may reply to you in the same fashion. Blogs can be useful to a variety of users just as the video demonstrates. A business owner can share information on his blog about his business, a mother can share her family information to other family members using her blog, and sports fans can learn about their favorite player by reading his blog. These blogs can also become a place of discussion between students in an online class. One prime example of teachers using it as a teaching tool is in our current situation of ETEC 60. The students of the class are required to post their research on various topics to a blog that they created. Another example of a teacher using this as a teaching tool is my son’s fourth grade teacher who had each of her students create their own blogs about saving sea-life animals. My son’s blog can be found at ryanssosblog.blogspot.com/ This type of strategy fit in with the constructivist school of learning because my son was already familiar with how to work on the internet, but did not know how to specifically create his own blog, so he used what he did know to help him learn how to create a blog.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)
Web logs, also known as Blogs are a way of broadcasting your personal news to anyone interested in hearing about it. They are personal web pages that allow you to display your news in the order that you post them. After you have posted your news, others that read it may reply to you in the same fashion. Blogs can be useful to a variety of users just as the video demonstrates. A business owner can share information on his blog about his business, a mother can share her family information to other family members using her blog, and sports fans can learn about their favorite player by reading his blog. These blogs can also become a place of discussion between students in an online class. One prime example of teachers using it as a teaching tool is in our current situation of ETEC 60. The students of the class are required to post their research on various topics to a blog that they created. Another example of a teacher using this as a teaching tool is my son’s fourth grade teacher who had each of her students create their own blogs about saving sea-life animals. My son’s blog can be found at ryanssosblog.blogspot.com/ This type of strategy fit in with the constructivist school of learning because my son was already familiar with how to work on the internet, but did not know how to specifically create his own blog, so he used what he did know to help him learn how to create a blog.
Wikis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#History
wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
Wikis are a way for a group to coordinate and organize information using a website that allows each group member to make changes, modifications, or add something new to the data. Wikis were developed by Ward Cunningham in 1994 after he was directed to take an airport shuttle called the Wiki-Wiki in Honolulu, Hawaii. Its main uses include providing a place for groups of people to collaborate all in one spot on the internet. It could also be used among students who are involved in a collaborative project at school. One popular place that I was very familiar with, but did not realize was a Wiki was Wikipedia.com. This is like a free encyclopedia online that offers information and definitions on a desired subject. What I didn’t know was that you could change or add information to it. Teachers can use this as a tool for professional growth by creating a wiki that will allow its team members to collaborate on the curriculum in their own classrooms rather than having to meet in person. Teachers could also create a classroom project that allows students to collaborate on the project while they are at home or some other location rather than school.
wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
Wikis are a way for a group to coordinate and organize information using a website that allows each group member to make changes, modifications, or add something new to the data. Wikis were developed by Ward Cunningham in 1994 after he was directed to take an airport shuttle called the Wiki-Wiki in Honolulu, Hawaii. Its main uses include providing a place for groups of people to collaborate all in one spot on the internet. It could also be used among students who are involved in a collaborative project at school. One popular place that I was very familiar with, but did not realize was a Wiki was Wikipedia.com. This is like a free encyclopedia online that offers information and definitions on a desired subject. What I didn’t know was that you could change or add information to it. Teachers can use this as a tool for professional growth by creating a wiki that will allow its team members to collaborate on the curriculum in their own classrooms rather than having to meet in person. Teachers could also create a classroom project that allows students to collaborate on the project while they are at home or some other location rather than school.
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