1. Images and Wikis
Technology for Teaching and Learning
Summer 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009

2. Day 4: Images and Wikis
❖ Catching up with social
networks and social media
stuff
❖ Picassa
❖ Flickr
❖ Wikis (in general, and our
wiki so far)
❖ Slideshare
Friday, July 31, 2009

3. Picasa
❖ Google product (requires a download...)
❖ Sort of like iPhoto...
❖ Online albums connected to on computer albums
❖ Simple movie-making
❖ And other features?
Friday, July 31, 2009

4. Flickr
❖ Signing up for Flickr (which is a Yahoo! company)
❖ Uploading, organizing, tagging, etc.
❖ Editing images
❖ Searching for images
❖ Flickr For Education (an example of a Flickr group)
Friday, July 31, 2009

5. Wikis
❖ Wikipedia is a wiki, but wikis ≠ Wikipedia
❖ Lots of different options: “free and easy” include PBworks,
Wikispaces, and Wetpaint (what we’re using)
❖ “Interview: The State of Wikis in Education” via Future
Changes by Stewart Mader
Friday, July 31, 2009

6. Wikis
❖ Some Krause examples:
❖ ENGL 516 Annotated Bib Wiki
❖ EMU Wiki (ENGL 444)
❖ ENGL 121 Class Site/Wiki
❖ And then there’s our Wiki....
Friday, July 31, 2009

7. Slideshare
❖ This is what I’m using right now....
❖ Some cool stuff on the site (which might actually help
students and teachers make better PowerPoint
presentations...)
❖ And we’ll talk about this with podcasting, too.
Friday, July 31, 2009