1. Blogs & Wikis in Context Chris Fowler 6 th December 2010

2. Content What are blogs? What are Wikis? Web and Educational Contexts Putting Blogs & Wikis into context

3. What are Blogs? Personal reflections often chronologically ordered A journal or diary Others read and can comment People tend to follow blogs

4. Micro blogging? Small version of blogs! Restricted to 140 - 200 characters (ie mainly text based) A web service (you subscribe to it – eg Twitter) Posts (or tweets) can be delivered via SMS, web browser or email. People usually select others they want to ‘follow’ (e.g a celebrity)

5. What are Wikis? Collaborative Web site (open editing/writing/saving eg wikispace) Can be ‘vandalised’ or ‘abused’ Some have limited editorial rights/control (e.g. Wikipedia) Not a finished product – shows work in progress Dynamic content

6. Technology and Educational Context Educational context: Instruction : teacher –centric; product-centric; one-to- many; limited interaction Construction: Learner-centric; process -centric; individual activity; high interactivity. Social Construction: learner-centric; process-centric; many-to-many; communication

7. Technology and Educational Context Technology (Web) Context: Web 1.0: static pages; content driven; controlled; individual focused; limited interactivity; limited communication tools (email). Web 2.0: dynamic; process driven; democratic; people focused; high interactivity; multitude of communication tools. Web 3.0 : all of the above plus personalised (computer agents/personal assistants etc).

8. Putting it into Context INSTRUCTIONCONSTRUCTIONSOCIAL CONSTRUCTION WEB 1.0HTML Search Engines File upload/download VRMLEmail IM WEB 2.0Del.icio.us Flickr Podcasting Internet TV/Radio (streaming) Blogs Micro blogs Web Apps Tag clouds Conferencing Wikis Google.doc WEB 3.0 (Semantic Web) Personal Assts (computer agents) 3D WharehousesFriend of a friend (Foaf)

9. Thank you for Listening