Middlesex County College - Web 2.0 Blogs, Wikis etc.

What is Web 2.0?

Weblogs or as they are commonly known BLOGS are being used in education as online portfolios, classroom portals, collaborative websites and much more. To find out more about using Weblogs and Web 2.0 in education visit Will Richardson's highly informative exploration of learning with the read/write web http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ he is also author of the recently released Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.

Web 2.0 Sampler Workshop Pre-Conference Workshop agenda at the 23rd Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin

Social Computing & Personal Broadcasting - Blog on a wide range of Web 2.0 topics

TLT Exploration Guide - Educational Uses of Blogs, Wikis, RSS and related tools.

The EduBlogs Awards - Awards for scholarly and education focused bloggers

Blog of Educational Websites of the Day ( and Year)… …For Teaching and ELL, ESL, & EFL

blog.mode: addressing fashion - Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that invites visitors to share their reactions online or from a "blogbar".

Google Reader - An aggregation tool for reading any number of Blogs

Blogger - A tool for creating your own Blog

Blog Software Comparison Chart

Twitter - Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface

Everything you need to know about RSS - Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Wikipedia:School and University projects how to use Wikipedia in your class to demonstrate how an open content website works (or doesn't).

Educause Learning Initiative: The Future of Learning Wiki

Educational Wikis - How to use Wikis in Education and examples of existing Educational Wikis.

Real World Learning Objects - Wikis - From Stevens College of Techology project on RWLOs.

Wikibooks - a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit.

Wiki Software Comparison Chart

Cohere - is an idea management tool for you to weave meaningful connections between ideas, for personal, team or social use.

Google Tools - A large range on online tools for free

Images in Blogs and Wikis

Photo sharing sites

FotoWoosh - Add 3D movement to your photographs in Facebook

Flickrstorm Searching images on Flickr

Slideshare - is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web

Gliffy is a free web-based diagram editor. Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floorplans, user interface designs and other drawings online.

Screencast - Screen casting software and site - free for 60 days

Screencast-o-matic - Free screen casting site.

ZamZar - Free online file conversion

Jing Project - An online program that instantly captures and shares images and video

Miro - watch free internet video channels and play any video file, including HD