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Teaching with Weblogs and Wikis

Blogs

Blogs (short for "Web logs") are user friendly websites that allow people to post messages as an individual or a group to a website. Teachers can use blogs to practice a wide range of language skills with their students.

 

Jen Ouellette's travel blog to keep in touch when she visited East Africa

 

Rosa’s advanced AMEP (Adult Migrant English Programme) in Sydney, Australia

 

The Room 101 morning class has been posting regularly since September 2005!

  

Where can you start a blog?

Google's Blogger:

www.blogger.com/start

 

Edublogs

www.edublogs.org


TypePad
www.typepad.com


WordPress

http://wordpress.org

 

Wikis

Wikis are websites that allow multiple editors to work together on a website. They can be used by teachers to work on reading, writing and collaboration skills with their learners.

 

Wikipedia is the world's largest and most well known wiki.

Wikihow: A wiki of "how to" websites 

www.wikihow.com


Instructional wiki example:  Reading and Writing Skills lesson

http://readingwriting101.pbwiki.com/News%20Report


Educational Heritage Wiki

 

Adult Education & Technology Wiki:
http://adultedtech.pbworks.com

 

Adult Literacy Education Wiki

ALE Wiki


Where can you start a wiki?

http://pbworks.com

www.wikispaces.com


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