Wiki vs Blog

Today I launched the discoverittasman Wiki. Initially this will be used to share information about the IT Heroes in all our schools - those brave souls who dare to go where they have never been before!

By seeing both a BLOG and WIKI in action, and hopefully taking part, you will soon understand the difference between the two. In brief:

These are both internet-based but differ from other websites in that:

BLOGS (web-logs) are kept by one person, and others may add comments.

WIKIS are websites which can be authored collaboratively by many people. The most commonly known example of this is Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org/) - a free encyclopedia which anyone can edit. They currently have 1,163,999 articles, and 1,530,075 registered user accounts!

What a great way to communicate with other students in our cluster:

• What about a shared book review wiki? Do you have people who maybe aren't so keen on reading, but would rush to finish a book so they can put their book review on the internet?

• How about learning vocabulary - work with students from other schools to perfect those tricky definitions.