Blog, Blogging and Wiki

Day VI                                                                 - 10th July

I am very much familiar with the posts on facebook and I have seen blog page been shared there. I did not know we can also have a page of our own and I never bothered about it. But as my tutor presented about it and how we can share information and receive comments, I thought it would be useful in our teaching learning process. This was a new experience for me.Blog is a type of website maintained by somebody to share information to others. It is a kind of online journal/diary maintained. It has an area for people to comment or respond to the blog post but one cannot edit the blog post.
We can create a free blog site by logging into our Gmail account. In the following few lines, I would like to write down few steps to create a blog page for one self. They are:

•   Login to your Google account

• Click on Google apps

• Choose Blogger
•  Make an address (URL) and give a blog title
• Choose a template
• Add your personal profile
• Customize your blog- make it the way you want your blog to look like.

To post on your blog, go to new post and a page will open up. You can write, add image , add video to your post. After you have finished writing the post, click publish to share with your friends. 

Wiki is yet another site. This is wonderful site for a collaborative work. Unlike the blog, wiki allows anyone on our team to edit the work. To create a Wiki Page we can do the following:

1. We can login to our google account.
2. click on the google apps and find sites. 
3. Click on sites and add the necessary information to create a wiki page.

These pages will be useful to us as teachers. Without spending much time we can share our writing or notes to our colleagues. Any announcements or notices can be circulated instantly without letting the office messenger running to every class with the announcement or notice register. If we start using these pages then we can organize a lot of activities which will save a lot of our time and resources. An information can be disseminated within a short period of time if there is access to internet.

I would like to share this with my colleagues here at the school. To make a start I can asked the Staff Secretary to create a wiki for the school. Share with all the teachers. Then minute the meetings here so that it can be circulated within a short period of time. Then I would also suggest my friend to share their lesson plans, yearly plans and other materials so that we can share each other's ideas to develop ourselves professionally. This can be a great tool to organize our daily activities in school.