Links+from+Neil

=**Neil's Talk on the ICT Rio Conference**=

** 1. What are wikis/blogs? **
Blog - time based - can have multiple contributors - people can comment -[|www.skippyslist.com] Wiki - topic based - multiple editors - [|www.wikipedia.org]

** 2. Uses in the classroom **
Wikis:
 * teacher resource sites which kids can contribute to - http://science-learning.wikispaces.com/
 * collaborative authoring across year groups/subjects/schools/countries - https://mathconnections.wikispaces.com/
 * ning.com - social network - somewhere between Orkut/Facebook and Wiki - http://environmentalscience.ning.com/
 * organisational - Google Calendar

**3. Uses for professional development**
Wikis and blogs: Posting own resources, collaborating etc. [|http://teachingsecondarymathematics.blogspot.com]http://brittgow.globalteacher.org.au/Twitter: Microblogging: [|http://www.twitter.com] getting names from [|twitter4teachers.pbwiki.com]

**4. Where to go?**
Different uses in each subject but we want to consider
 * the same applications (wikispaces.com, blogger.com, ning.com, google)
 * the same/similar aim/criteria/mission statement etc. (see [|Bloom's Digital Taxonomy)]
 * a central reference point so that we can see what each other is doing, what's working etc.