BLOGS, WIKI AND LMS

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ABSTRACT
This document discussed on the use of blogs, wiki for
instructional purposes. Critical discussion on LMS and
how we can use them for instructional purposes is well
explained on this document.



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HOW CAN WE USE BLOGS FOR INSTUCTIONAL PURPOSES
Blogs have now been used to promote instructors and students to present and demonstrate
varieties of things and extend collaboration
through a type of blog named Edublogs.
Edublogs allows students to express their views
and demonstrate what they learn in class base on
their interest. It also allows instructors to deliver
knowledge and open discussion to the students
base on what have been taught in class.
Instructors can use blogs to replace the standard class Web page to post class times and rules,
assignment notifications, suggested readings, and exercises. Aside from the ordering of material
by date, students would find nothing unusual in this use of the blog. The instructor, however,
finds that the use of blogging software makes this previously odious chore much simpler.
Instructors can link Internet items that relate to their course. For example, maintains a blog to
pass along links and comments about topics related to what have been instructed in
class. Blogging allows instructor to write what are in essence short essays directed specifically
toward students this will also allow students to share their views and suggestion through
comments.
Well organized in-class discussions where by multiple views can be expressed and collaboration
can be extended. At the State University of New York at Buffalo, for example, Alexander
Halavais added a blog to his media law class of about 180 students. Course credit was awarded
for online discussion, with topics ranging from the First Amendment to libel to Irish law reform.
As the course wound down with a discussion of nude bikers, Halavais questioned whether he
would continue the blog the following year because of the workload, but students were
enthusiastic in their comments - Alexander Halavais, "Media Law" course website, February 17,
2004.
Student can also use Edublogs to express view and add research work that will deliver
knowledge to maximize the potential to study more and writing skills.


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Instructors can use blogs to organize class seminars and to provide summaries of readings. Used
in this way, the blogs become "group blogs"that is, individual blogs authored by a group of
people and Students may be asked to write their own blogs as part of their course grade. Farrell
notes: "It becomes much easier for the professor and students to access the readings for a
particular weekand if you make sure that people are organized about how they do it, the
summaries will effectively file themselves."

- Farrell, "The Street Finds Its Own Uses."
What makes blogs so attractive, in both the educational community and the Internet at large, is
their ease of use. A blog owner can edit or update a new entry without worrying about page
formats or HTML syntax. Sebastian Fiedler, a media pedagogy specialist at the University of
Augsburg in Germany, has been monitoring the rise of blogs for a number of years
In summary, instructors can use blogs in their classrooms to provide further assignments for
students to work on to give student ability to do more research and extend learning skills through
private tutors and work in small groups to write and post summaries of content covered in class
to build a compendium for content covered over a semester for collaboration purposes among
students.
Edublogs for classroom projects where students can include videos, clips, audio, text and images
and instructors creating a specific section just for website links and references to other interesting
content online can increase creativities skills to students.









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HOW CAN WE USE WIKI FOR INSTUCTIONAL PURPOSES
Wiki is mostly used and it gives individuals from
different angle to join views and thoughts by
editing the articles to extend collaborations. An
example to this when we were studying, a lecture
gives an assignment were by one article was
created and each individual were contributing
remotely by editing and updating the article and
at the end full article was created.
Collaboration, skill sharing was extended through
wiki. Generally, a student begun a wiki on a topic and invites others to participate in creating
content using an interface that's similar to basic word processing software. Because new content
is continually being added by contributors, wikis are considered fluid works in progress (changes
are tracked as "page history," so it's possible to see the development of the wiki over time). In
addition, wikis typically include forums that let users discuss the content they're creating.
Wikis are extremely flexible tools that have many classroom, professional development, and
administrative uses where by students can use wikis as platforms for collaborative problem
solving; group laboratory reports; "WebEssays" (essays that combine images, text, and
hyperlinks); writing projects; and the creation of a class "textbook." Basically, wikis can be used
to support any type of collaborative student project.

Wikis are handy tools for planning workshops or conferences. Trainers can post documents and
other resources at the wiki prior to the workshop and have participants create and post their own
notes during the event. Later, participants can return to the wiki to further reflect on what they've
learned. Administrators can leverage wikis to allow teachers, technology staff, and others help
create and edit policy documents.





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Examples of LMS (such as Moodle, blackboard, whiteboard etc.)
and how can we use such system in instruction
LMSs have been used by Colleges and
universities and corporate training
departments to deliver online courses,
augment on-campus courses and online
training for cooperates. Blackboard, with
boards and Moodle are some of the examples
of LMS where by web conferencing,
enterprise instant messaging, voice authoring
capabilities and other web delivery of
knowledge has made easy.
Blackboard, white board, Moodle and others provides virtual campuses where
College or university work is completed either partially or wholly online, often with the
assistance of the teacher and professor, or teaching assistant.
Various types of learning activities such as lectures, homework, discussions, readings,
assignments are provided and classes are usually self-paced using online documents and
databases that might be available to them. Tests and other assignments are available online in
specific programs used for online classes.
Whiteboard, Blackboard, Moodle etc. Other methods used in virtual campus are live sessions,
videoconferencing, discussing and sharing various applications to name a few. Individuals are
able to access the materials any time they want under the teachers control and are able to access
anywhere online where theyre able to access internet usage.
Email is a big part of the virtual campuses and is often used before, during and after sessions.
This aids individuals in exchanging information and or point them to the right direction that
would be useful in increasing and understanding various methods available to them via
documents and online sources.



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With the use of this technologies instructors and teaching assistants can create classroom, view
blackboard collaborate recordings, assign moderator and participant roles. It also can be used by
lecturers and students to communicate synchronously using a number of methods i.e. audio,
video, text chat, interactive whiteboard, application sharing, instant polling etc. and allows
participants to interact in real-time in a purpose built virtual classroom for education.