Blogs or Wikis

I teach 7th grade science and I am very interesting in incorporating a blog or wiki as part of my classroom. What tool is better to interact with students with?

Thanks for the feedback.

Ken

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Chadwick on August 17, 2011 at 3:46pm

I am using a blog through wordpress that my school allows. It's easy to work. Check it out. My is for esl writing. http://blogs.bcbe.org/eachadwick/

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Permalink Reply by Ken Edwards on August 17, 2011 at 6:04pm

Wow! This Blog is great; thanks for the advice Elizabeth. Have a great year.

Ken

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Permalink Reply by Colleen Young on August 18, 2011 at 12:11am

I really like WordPress and have several blogs including one I use for homework details for all my classes - nobody can ever say to me now that they didn't know what the homework was! I use blogs when I want to give information to students (or staff). Whilst anyone can comment on a blog, depending on what you want to do then a wiki may be better for collaboration.

I use wikispaces (no age issues as teachers can create users - no email required), classes have found it easy to learn and use and like the fact that they all have editing rights!

I put links together here for staff at my school (which as it happens is a WordPress blog!).

Also see the link to Blogs, Wikis, Docs - which is right for your lesson on this page.

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Permalink Reply by Ken Edwards on August 22, 2011 at 11:01am

Thanks for the advice Colleen. I have created an account with WordPress but I have not developed yet; I better get busy. Have a great year.

Ken

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Permalink Reply by Karen Beth Contreras on August 19, 2011 at 1:24pm

I use a wiki on Wikispaces in my Freshman English class. My students created their own little wikipedia on it. The wiki is wonderful for collaboration and providing an authentic audience for student writing. I think Blogs are better for creating a discussion forum though. Also, a NING allows students to have their personal pages and provides a blog forum as well. Good luck!!!

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Permalink Reply by Ken Edwards on August 22, 2011 at 11:01am

Thank you for the advice Karen.

Have a great year.

Ken

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Permalink Reply by Alice Keeler on August 23, 2011 at 11:24am

I am a big advocate of using the right tool for the right application. I use www.pbworks.com, I usually get frustrated with wikispaces for my wiki. But I use a wiki when I am wanting to be collaborative and also to organize information more like I might do if I were to print it out and put in a binder. Use a blog if you are wanting to share information and it doesn't necessarily have to be organized.