WIKIS, RSS, TWITTER, DELICIOUS

Ch 4. Wiki: Easy Collaboration for All
YouTube: In Plain English Video  
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Timeline:
1995 - Ward Cunningham creates an easy authoring tool Wiki [short for wiki-wiki = quick]
2012 - Wikipedia: over 3 million separate entries; approx 400,000 edits/day; has become 'the' encyclopedia of human knowledge


"Wikipedia is becoming a trusted & cited source by many major new outlets [the New York Times among them] and scholars"  p. 58

Main Feature:
Collaborative construction of knowledge

Some Uses:
- online text creation
- multimedia resource: explore Course Content WIKI https://sites.google.com/site/tech4tlcontent/

Read More:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki


Ch 5. RSS - Really Simple Syndication 
YouTube: In Plain English Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU 

An application for helping to access the 'avalanche of information' on the web that aggregates or collects your favourite sites and notifies you of updates.

Read More:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS


 Activity: Working with your Google Reader; subscribe to Flex2012 blog; review & subscribe to 1-2 sources; think about organization of your reader.


Ch 6. The Social Web
YouTube: In Plain English Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc

Twitter
YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

2006 - Twitter, also known as microblogging, is developed as a tool for providing quick updates in 140 characters or less

Anita's Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/azboudreau
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Activity: set up your Twitter account; find and follow 1-2 interesting sources

Social Bookmarking
YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMsT6Zsa_FQ 
1996 - first bookmarking management services
2003 - Delicious popularizes 'social bookmarking' and 'tagging' features which enable "users to organize their bookmarks in flexible ways & develop shared vocabularies."  

Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
Anita's Delicious: http://delicious.com/azboudreau

Activity: Set up complete? Bookmark relevant sources from Day 2 [include tags, description]; Search & bookmark 2-3 sites [ISTE, Teaching Tolerance, plus your own subject related]

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