What a great idea, Patricia. Here is an example of a demo for google docs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction
You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Patricia Schlicht <[email protected]>wrote: > Maybe a demo would be helpful for those who are Newbies, so the power of > this tool can be understood by everyone. Maybe schedule a session for those > that are interested? > > Cheers, > > Patricia > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Gladys Gahona > *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:27 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Is there any difference between Wiki and > googlesite ? > > > > Yes Nellie, you is right, > > Google Docs is new to me, i apologize I forgot to mention it. We both, > Nellie and I have made excelent collaborative jobs using Google Docs, she's > an expert on this app. you should see her creating great docs in a few > minutes. I Definitely recommend Google Docs. > > 2009/4/30 NELLIE DEUTSCH <[email protected]> > > Thank you, Gladys. I would like to add google docs that allows unlimited > number of people to collaborate in real time/or not on presentations, excel > files, pdf files, and so on. If used correctly, it can function as a great > collaborative learning tool. > Warm wishes, > Nellie Deutsch > Doctoral Student > Educational Leadership > Curriculum and Instruction > > You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how > to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators > around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Gladys Gahona <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We should first diferentiate each one of the services Google has: > *Google Sites > *Blogger > *Google Groups > *Knol > *so on > > * Google Sites is a platform for developing a traditional website. I have > a Google Site and I definitely would'nt recomend it... it is still limited > in many senses and HTML is extremely basic. > * Blogger is great, but its more like a cronological list of events, which > certainly can be categorized. It can be a nice collaborative tool. > * Google Groups is a mailing list manager & Forum. No more. > * Knol, the new tool of Google is more like wikis, keeps logs of revisions. > It has a nice edition tool. I have knoles for some spanish content. So far I > have embedded images, videos, like blogger does. HTML is a bit more > complete. > * Wiki is still to me the king of collaborative platforms. They still lack > in friendly edition, which can be sorted by building wiki skills. One > important point in favor of WikiEd is its escalability as an open source > application. There is an ever growing team of geek/tech folks developing > improvements for this platform. I trust in the current capacities and > potentialities of wikimedia platform. I trust in our tech support team. > > Cheers > > 2009/4/30 Ben <[email protected]> > > > Basically, people collaborate using a wiki in order to change a single > document or page, much like a google document (word processor, > spreadsheet, or presentation); that is, people work together to > collaborate on a particular piece of CONTENT. Although there is a > discussion tab for posting, the heart of a wiki is using collaboration > to change CONTENT. A blog and group (like google groups) are more for > threaded discussions and are not concerned about editing a particular > content page. Blogs tend to be more open to the public whereas groups > are more closed (you typically need to be a member to either see posts > or add to the posts). Most blogs you can add comments without being a > member or having to sign in. There are exceptions and overlaps, but > basically blogs are more open to the public and groups are more > closed. Wikis are open, some allow people to change content without > having an account while others require an account. > > You can get a deeper explanation by searching the web: What is a > wiki? What is a blog? What is google groups? > > I hope this helps. > Benjamin > > > > On Apr 30, 5:45 am, Wong Leo <[email protected]> wrote: > > I often confuse this , is there any difference between a google site and > a > > wiki site like WE ? > > also another similar questions would be What is Wiki on earth ? > > I have been using blog recently in one of my projects , it is a group > > projects which consits abt 6 schools , so I give each school the username > > and password , so all of them can log in and starting writing on it > > > > The only difference maybe I cant see who edited it ( The history function > of > > Wiki ) but it is much easier to use this blog than using a wiki , and > Blog > > is also very updated in a much more user-friendly way . so a very old > > question what is the difference between wiki and blog ? I don't see many > > > > All these goes back the question for a long time in my mind , when google > > promote googlesite( from Jotspot) but they are very differencet , do you > > think Google did it without mentioning the word called Wiki , there maybe > a > > reason for this ? > > > > anyway , it is a little bit off topic of this group questions , please > share > > what you think with us > > > > Leo > > > > -- > > Leo Wong > > --------------------------------------http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/HELP > > There is something very special and powerful about engaging directly with > > the real teacher and real Kids > > > > > -- > > Gladys Gahona > Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary & Tertiary grades. > http://chela5808.wordpress.com > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 > Skype:chela5808 > > > > > > > > > -- > Gladys Gahona > Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary & Tertiary grades. > http://chela5808.wordpress.com > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 > Skype:chela5808 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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