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From Northern Blue - Canada's Leader in Digital Publishing

Collaborative education using wikis is a terrific way to engage students.

Northern Blue Publishing can assist schools who want to make their own wiki, or even,
THEIR OWN CLASS TEXTBOOK.

• If you are a subscriber to a Northern Blue portal, we can install a wiki, forum, Weblog, social network and/or course management structure for you, and give you training and templates, or

• You can use one of several free online services to set up your own, and use Northern Blue Publishing digital portals as research sources.

Here's an example of a free educational wiki service: Wikispaces.

Here's an example of a class wiki set up for students - A Broken World, the World War I wiki of a Grade 9 class. Their teacher comments:

You are now "textbook writers." Your goal is to make a better, more interesting textbook than that overweight, boring, 20th Century history textbook you're now using. And to do work of such high quality that you can include it on your resume as another example of your academic skills in your "digital portfolio."

You can also use other School 2.0 online services such as: Diigo - for "social bookmarking" of Web sources. Blogger - to create a class weblog. Ning - to build your own social network

Some other collaboration and online productivity sources: Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher Web 2.0 Videos and Powerpoints Classroom 2.0

• A Teacher comments:

"Following and reading blogs, participating in ning, contributing to wikis, writing in my blog, I haven't thought this much in years. It truly is an amazing phenomenon. I feel so intellectually alive. I'm inspired and challenged constantly. The blogs I read lead me to question and explore new tools and Websites. I haven't written this much since I was in school. It is all so exciting and energizing. For me, classroom 2.0 could just be about my own growth and learning and that would be enough."