Blogs and Wikis
Wikipedia defines a blog as a website for which an individual or a group generates text, photographs, video, audio files, and/or links, typically but not always on a daily or otherwise regular basis. The term is a shortened form of weblog.
Blogs can be used as collaborative spaces, diaries, collections of links, or a news outlets. For more information about how blogs are used, see Blogger.
A Wiki is a Web page that allows anyone to edit the page, add pages, or add links to a page using a Web browser. Wikis are easy to use and are useful tools for collaboration and group work.
The most popular Wiki is Wikipedia, an online free encyclopedia that anyone can make edits. There are 30,000 contributors who help maintain over 1 million entries.
Blogging & Wiki Tools
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Blogger.com
This site offers free blogs for anyone. Started in 1999, Blogger was purchased by Google in 2002. - Edublogs.org
Ad-free blogs for education professionals - Learnerblogs.org
free Wordpress blogs for school students - Livejournal
You can use the free LiveJournal in many different ways: as a private journal, a blog, a social network and more. -
Movable Type
Six Apart offers free personal editions of this blogging software in addition to paid versions for education and business. - pbWiki
Another fine site, with ad-free wikis for educators - WetPaint
Free wikis with ad-free versions available for education courses. -
Wikispaces
Wikispaces offers free Wikis for anyone. Setting up a space is easy and the visual editor is simple to use. -
Wordpress
Free blogging with easy to customize widgets, allows import from other popular blogging tools
Articles
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Educational Blogging
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5 (September/October 2004): 14-26 - Educational Wikis: features and selection criteria
This article describes educational uses for Wikis, comparisons of major Wiki engines, and selection criteria. - Successful and Safe Educational Blogging
This article by Wesley A. Fryer gives a thorough overview of using blogging as an educational tool.
