Education Blogs

Below is some of the key terminology for our lesson on blogs and wikis.  Also please read the articles on Web 2.0, Wiki, and RSS. 

web 2.0 - a group of technologies which have become deeply associated with the term: blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds etc., which facilitate a more socially connected Web where everyone is able to add to and edit the information space.  Below is a long but very informative article.  (Just read section 2 and section 5 that shortens it up quite a bit.)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf 

wiki – a web page that can be viewed and modified by anyone with a web browser and internet access.  (caution: this means that anyone can modify the web content.)  See the website below for an article on wikis.

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf

RSS (Rich Site Summary) – a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.   Below is a website that explains RSS in one page.

http://www.whatisrss.com/