Wikis+and+Blogs

Wiki or blog? Blog or wiki? Which should I use for my classroom? Before you can decide you need to know the difference in them. A blog, or web log, shares writing and multimedia content in the form of “posts” (starting point entries) and “comments” (responses to the posts). While commenting, and even posting, are open to the members of the blog or the general public, no one is able to change a comment or post made by another. The usual format is post-comment-comment-comment, and so on. For this reason, blogs are often the vehicle of choice to express individual opinions. A wiki has a far more open structure and allows others to change what one person has written. This openness may trump individual opinion with group consensus.

Wiki
- Multiple Authors - Edited by a group or team - Contains links to other Wiki pages - Continuousy changing and growing rapidly - Many-to-many communication

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Blog
- Usually a single author. Sometimes can have multiple contributors - Author posts, user comments - Opinion Sharing - One-to-many content

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