Resources

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The sharing features of Wikis enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit information. You’ll find that wikis helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of [|The National Council of Teachers of English], which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.

**Tutorials**
[|Getting Started with Wikis]

Formating Wikis

Features of Wikis

Wiki Advanced Features

Inserting [|Google Calendar] into your Wiki or Blog

This [|video] introduces key concepts of blogging for students.  

**2.0 Tools**
[|Google Docs] a free collaborative, but private, writing space.
 * It lends itself to setting up fan fiction writing and reviewing in schools where privacy concerns rule out the use of Fanfiction.net.

[|Web 2.0 Tools]

On the [|K12 High Speed Network] [|Edzone] has a blog just for educators. In September Edzone will also host [|Moodle] for free.

[|Web-based Feed Readers]

[|Edublogs.org] Edublogs works well on the teacher side. Create all your accounts at home, and you should not have any problems of being blocked.

[|Free Online Tools]

[|Delicious] a free social, internet bookmarking service.

[|Fanfiction.net] a public affinity space devoted to writing and reviewing fan fiction.

[|Jing Project] a free application that enables you to capture what is happening on your computer desktop as a video with voiceover.

[|Freeplay Music] has music sound effects with user-friendly copyright.

[|KeepVid] enables you to download a copy of videos from such sites as YouTube.com

[|Ning] a free social networking service that users can tailor to specific group needs.

[|OurMedia] a free hosting site for images, texts, and video and audio clips. It is dedicated "to spreading grassroots creativity".

[|Podomatic] a free hosting site for podcasts.

[|Zamzar] a free online file conversion program.

[|Shambles] a one-stop portal for accessing a range of Web 2.0 applications and services.

[|VoiceThread] a user-generated content hosting site that enables users to leave audio and video comments on posts.

**Support Material**
[|NewLits.org] a professional development wiki focused on new literacies and digital technologies for middle school eduators.

Ways to Use Wikis

Blogging Resources

[|Digital Portfolios]

Houghton Mifflin technology resources

The Coach's Cafe

[|Webinar Library]

[|Document Library for Wikis and Blogs]

Palm Springs Technology Tool Kit

[|21st Century Learning Inititiatve]

Other CTAP Resources CTAP 4: [|Cyber Safty Resource]

[|Sharing Your Work] Creative Common Video

[|Brian’s Practice Wiki]

Resource page for literature circles http://thebookclub.wikispaces.com/page/code/home

Educational Wikis (articles and examples)

Flat Classroom Project (collaboration between schools in two countries)

NECC wrap-up wiki [|site]

NECC Web 2.0: This wiki links Web 2.0 tools to Marzano Strategies http://web2thatworks.com/index.php?title=Web_2.0_Tools

[|Best practice article on web logs]

[|High school journalists use weblogs to mentor younger writers]

**Middle School Blogging Best Practices**
[|Changing Attitudes]

[|Student Portfolios]

[|EduBlog Awards]

**Elementary Blogging Best Practice**
[|A Space of Your Own]

[|A Place to be Heard]

[|Student Portfolios]

[|Four Web 2.0 Collaborative-Writing Tools]

Welcome to Web 2.0: from [|Curious to Competent] [| http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pxR5L5rNTs3HoHn1YHtGUVg&hl=en]