23rd Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference

Welcome to the Web 2.0 pre-conference blog! We will test out a wide variety of applications, creating sites and demonstrating potential applications.

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Blogging

Web Logs or "blogs" are web pages that are generated with software that commonly puts postings in reverse chronological order. One common software program to create blogs is http://blogger.com/ - owned by Google.
Sample application:

1. Journal blog - to collect and present student journal entries


2. Filter blog - to post a collection of items such as news stories, or as in this case, technologies
3. Team blog - multiple posters to present group project - such as blogging the 23rd Annual Distance Teaching and learning Conference!

Online Learning Update

OLU Syndication

Weblogs in Education article

Wikis

Wiki (meaning "quick" in Hawaiian) is a collaborative document creation web site.
Sample application:

1. Student projects can be drafted collaboratively online
2. Faculty can share wiki space to draft co-authored articles
3. "Living~Growing~Evolving" documents

Wild about Wiki

Creating a Wiki-Centric Activity

Wiki Spaces