Additional Resources: Emerging Technologies

1. User-created Content: blogs, wikis, podcasting

What is a blog?

Want to search for blogs?

• Google Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.com
• Technorati: http://www.technorati.com

Read about the progress bloggers are making:

• Pew Internet & American Life Project: Bloggers, A Portrait of the Internet’s new Storytellers

Free blogging software

• Blogger.com, http://www.blogger.com
• WordPress.com, http://wordpress.com
• Bloglines.com, http://www.bloglines.com

Photoblogging software

• Flickr.com (photoblog), http://flickr.com

Videoblogging software:

• YouTube.com (videoblog), http://youtube.com
• Viddler.com, http://www.viddler.com
• Google Video, http://video.google.com

What is a wiki?

Examples of wiki software

• Pbwiki.com, http://pbwiki.com
• Wikispaces.com, http://wikispaces.com
• Deki Wiki, http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki
• SocialText, http://www.socialtext.net

What is a podcast?

• iTunes U, http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu

Course/content/learning management systems

• Blackboard (we will be installing blog and wiki modules in our Blackboard system in spring 2008)
• Moodle, http://moodle.org
• Drupal, http://drupal.org
• Sakai, http://sakaiproject.org

Online tool applications

• Google docs, http://docs.google.com/
• Zoho, http://zoho.com
• Google pages, http://pages.google.com

2. Social Networking

• MySpace, http://www.myspace.com
• Facebook, http://www.facebook.com
• RateMy Professors, http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp
• LinkedIn (professionals, http://www.linkedin.com
• Flickr, http://flickr.com
• MIXXER, http://www.language-exchanges.org/noLogin.htm
• Drupal, http://drupal.org
• Del.icio.us, http://del.icio.us
• Moodle, http://moodle.org
• Zotero, http://www.zotero.org
• Ning, http://www.ning.com
• Google calendar, (can make public) http://www.google.com/calendar
• Google reader, (can make public) http://www.google.com/reader

Excellent Videos to Watch

• Wikis in Plain English: http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
• Social Networking in Plain English: http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking
• RSS Feeds in Plain English: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english