Thank you all , all with great help on my understanding on the differences between a googlesite and a wiki ?
@ gladysgahona Your help was so helpful for me to see @ Nellie , thank you too for the video , but Youtube has been recently blocked completly from last month here in China , @ others ,In purdue University students from them are collaborating doing this with Chinese students in a wiki enviorments I will try to find the link My own thoughts , I think there are many many web2.0 services around in English world ,like wiki or Youtube , but it is still hard for like Chinese students ,questions 1 are there more these kinda site in other languages like Spansish ? 2 What are commercial reason behind this ? How those services making money ? is WE making any profits or money for its users or how ? Leo best regards 2009/5/1 NELLIE DEUTSCH <nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> > Patricia, > I would like to see Wikieducator do what google docs does. > 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 2:08 PM, Patricia Schlicht <pschli...@col.org>wrote: > >> Nellie, it is great, no doubt, but we won’t be collaborating on the >> wiki, instead we would do this outside of WikiEducator. I think it works >> well in a business environment where you want to share documents with each >> other, working on it collaboratively without having to send email with >> attachments. Maybe you could let us know how you envision the use of this >> for WikiEducator. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Patricia >> >> >> >> *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: >> wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *NELLIE DEUTSCH >> *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:46 PM >> >> *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com >> *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Is there any difference between Wiki and >> googlesite ? >> >> >> >> 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 <pschli...@col.org> >> 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:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: >> wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Gladys Gahona >> *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:27 PM >> *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com >> *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 <nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> >> >> 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 <gladysgah...@gmail.com> >> 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 <bnl...@yahoo.com> >> >> >> 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 <leolao...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Leo Wong -------------------------------------- http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP There is something very special and powerful about engaging directly with the real teacher and real Kids --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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