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How can blogs and wikis be useful in the classroom?

Blogs and wikis provide infinite possibilities for collaboration amongst students and educators alike. [|Tech & Learning]is a great place to start if you are looking for ideas about how to infuse technology into your classroom ([|subscribe] to receive email updates with the latest headlines). A great [|article] by David Warlick explains the advantages to using wikis as a collaborative tool for students, teachers, administrators, and parents. You can also follow David's [|blog] about his own thoughts on education and technology.

Teacher and blogger Vicki Davis is also full of ideas about technology in the classroom, which she chronicles in her [|Cool Cat Teacher blog]. Find out [|how she uses wikis]in the classroom, specfic [|steps for introducing wikis to students], as well as her thoughts on areas where wiki use could use some[| improvements].

Wikis can be useful any time students need to collaborate on a project. In a science class, students often work together in lab groups and then write a lab report. Rather than each student writing their own lab report, they could [|collaborate on some or all portions of the report]. In what other ways can/do students collaborate in the science classroom? In what ways could collaboration help students to understand the content? The answers to these questions could lead to a multitude of other ways to use wikis in the classroom.

Wikispaces and Blackboard aren't the only sites to use in education. Tech & Learning lists several other options in this list of [|Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Educators]. Glogster and Kidblog are two that are designed specifically for student blogging.