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WIKIS and BLOGGING

⁭  web2 ⁭  tool ⁭  interactive ⁭  free [|www.technofit.wikispaces.com] Knowledge management system that can be accessed and edited for free. Interactive, now, real time web log maintained by an indivual news diary form text, images, links comments network critical and reflective practice sharing of information and resources password protection. personalised organised RSS/Atom feed reader (brings things into the site for you – like a research tool that saves you time) several webmail providers – Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail Delicious Flickr photos, podcast support, built in audio player Public demain If on school zone you can get live feeds every day from netvibes, eg. calendars. On the netvibes page can set up the professional readings. Don’t want to overload staff to begin with. Can have a lot of information coming into you. Then you can select to read the whole article or not. Set it up as a public page. Share. Sends widget to your private page. Takes 2mins to get all feeds onto own pages. Very quick, efficient tool to get the info to everyone immediately. Add content=add a feed – type in the webaddress and add to the professional reading blogs page. Sharing understandings is very powerful. Very simple and easy to use storing, sharing, discovering five million + users 150 million bookmarked URLs Great help menu. You can bundle the websites. Have to try and keep the size under control. Each teacher to customize to own class. Differentiate eg Squares maths group. Having everybody contribute was very beneficial. It has instructions that you can follow fairly simply. Great sharing, if one teacher has found great maths sites for a topic, then everyone can share it. TIME SHARING DEVICES so get it right!
 * __ Wikipedia: __**
 * __ Google docs __**
 * __ Blogs __**
 * __ ICT Cluster Sites: __**
 * __ Netvibes: __**
 * __ Delicious __** : (social bookmarking)

//__ BLOGGING TIPS __// Get students to write appropriately. Needs to be explicitly taught to teachers and children. Read examples of good blogs to support this. Incorporate it into the reading programme. It needs to be regular: It is a diary so treat it like one. It can be a great reflective tool. Cyber safety is important, check policies. esp. photos and names.

ICTPD cluster sites worth looking at from the technofit wiki. Some of these can be hard.