Blogs and WikisCollaborating using Internet-Ready Tools

Similarities

• Writing tools• Multiple users are creators of content• Internet accessible tools– Anywhere, anytime content creation

• Customization• Span across multiple classes or years

Differences

Blogs• Web journal• Chronology Based• Comments to content come

from other users• Interactive Widgets (e.g.

Calendar, Twitter, Flickr, etc…)

• LDAP integration

Wikis• Collaboration Tool/Group

Projects• Track collaboration

according to user• Rollback capabilities• Add users manually

Making the Decision: Blogs vs Wiki or Neither

• Why do you want a site outside of the LMS? • Is this a project, course or organizational based site?• Do you want this site to be accessible by everyone? Will there

be guest users? What types of guest users will there be?• Do you want to show chronological details?• How long will this site need to be accessed? (For the course,

year, etc…)• What type of functionality do you want this site to have?• How do you want the site to look after the content is

populated?

ROLLINS EXAMPLES

Wikis

• GRASPEA 21 – Collaboration on GRASP trip to Spain, student created site that compiled all information for the trip into one centralized area.

• ZERO- Student collaborative site built around a centralized theme of the course.

• LAKEAPOPKA – Collaboration between multiple groups and classes centered around the issues of Lake Apopka.

• SARATOGA – Collaboration between students for a final project depicting the major characters of the Battle of Saratoga.

Blogs

• PROJECT MOSAIC – Multiclass collaborative blog centered around a common theme.

• CRUCIAL DECADE– Student generated site compiled through multiple assignments resulting in a site that depicts the early territories of the US.

• FILMS OF THE 80S – Student collaborations within the theme of the course.

• FROM THE ARCHIVES – Departmental site that uses the blog to communicate with multiple audiences .

INTERFACE