Discussion: Other Internet Communications technologies (still working on websites)

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2014-03-11T13:40:48-06:00

Presentation on other web technologies

As I mentioned before, an alternative assignment if you already know how to make websites is to make a social network for your class. In some situations, this can be useful. In fact, one site for creating social networks, Edmodo, has become very popular in education and you may have heard of it already. Please watch this introduction to social networks and then respond by answering these questions below.

Before answering the questions, it's important to know that there are different kinds of websites you can create. One is a regular class website (like our Google Sites we're making). The other is a social network, as explained in this video. A third is a wiki, or a website that anyone can edit, and many free options are available and teachers can create class wikis instead of class websites as well. Here's a link to some example educational wikis. Go check a few out! Fourth, there are blogs, which primarily presents information in reverse chronological order, so the most recent content is presented at the top, and the older material is at the bottom. On our Google Sites, the blog is the "announcements" page. Blogger is an example of a blog.

Discussion

Now, here are the discussion questions!

1. What are the pedagogical differences between blogs, websites, wikis, and social networks? In other words, how would using one or the other affect your teaching strategies or the learning strategies of your students?

2. What do you think you will be most likely to use in your teaching? A blog, a wiki, or a social network? Why?

3. As you have been making your website, what cool new features or gadgets have you discovered to improve your site? Post what you have learned so others can learn about them too.

4. Respond to at least one of your peers' ideas too.