Social Networking: Introducing Blogs, Wiki 

End of the Day 2 Checklist 

At the end of this day, please make sure that you have successfuly

Links to blogs quoted on today's presentation:

English Virtual Community (Nelba)

My Spot in Cyberspace (Berta)

Byond the English Classroom Walls (Evelyn)  sohbet

Nik's Quick Shout (Nick)

My integrating technology journey (Jennifer)

Life Feast (Ana)

Teacher Professional Development (Aiden)

Bee-blogging from the tropics (Bee)

Tutorials

Blogs in Plain English (Watch on YouTube)

Wikis in Plain English (Watch on YouTube)

Wikispaces Editing (Watch on YouTube)

New Guided Facebook: A Guided Tour (Watch on Youtube)

More Video Tutorials

• Introducing the wiki concept (pbwiki)

• Getting started with pbworks (pbwiki)

• Getting started with wikispaces

Popular Blogs sites:

• blogger.com
• Wordpress
• Edublogs

Popular Wiki sites:

• pbworks
• wikispaces

• Wetpaint 

• Examples of Wikis

 ***Would you like to see how teachers around the world are blogging for professional development? An ELT Blogger Directory 

Further Readings:

Wikis

• Using wiki for Teacher Professional Development 

• Blogs and wikis:Professional Development Tools (Presenttation at Slidsahre)

• 7 Things You Should Know about Wikis

• What a wiki is, why to use wikis in education, and how to use wikis in education.

• EFL Wikis

• Tutorials, articles and books

•  Wikieducatortutorial:what is a wiki? 

• Wikis http://wikiteachinglearningtips.pbwiki.com/Educational+uses+of+wikis

• 50 Wiki Ways.pdf

Blogs

• Blogs and Wikis

• Blog Advice, Tutorials, and Resources

• Blogging for beginners

• Blogs for Professional Development

• Top Ten Reasons to Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog:elearning Technology

********* If you want to know about Twitter, go here:

• All about Twitter

• How Twitter was born

• Quick Start Tips for New Twitters

• 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter Research
• When Tweeple Become People
• Twittercism  Tools, Hints, Tips, Tricks & Opinion about Twitter

• Blogging vs Twitteting:which is more productive?

• Twitter Etiquette

• Twitter long Reading List

• Twitter in Plain English (Watch on Youtube)