The Read/Write Web: In which the Web is seen as a two-way medium, where people are both readers and writers. The main catalyst for this is social software, allowing communication and collaboration between two or more people. (Squidoo.com)

Blog/WebLog: a web page containing brief, chronologically arranged items of information. A blog can take the form of a diary, journal, what's new page, or links to other web sites. (Peter Scott, Internet Librarian 2001)

Weblogs provide a communication space that teachers can utilize with students whenever there is a curriculum need to develop writing, share ideas and reflect on work being undertaken in the classroom. (Weblogs in the Classroom)

Wikis provide unique collaborative opportunities for education. Combining freely accessible information, rapid feedback, simplified HTML, and access by multiple editors, wikis are being rapidly adopted as an innovative way of constructing knowledge. (Encyclopedia of Educational Technology)

Teachers and students can use password protected wikis to share ideas to create a dynamic digital information resource.

RSS is a technology that allows educators to subscribe to "feeds" of the content that is created on the Internet. Rather than searching the Internet for content, RSS brings the content to the subscriber. RSS lets us read and connect with what others write. (Will Richardson)

An RSS Aggregator collects and organizes the content generated via the RSS feed. (Will Richardson)

Collective feeds can be combined to keep related work together such as individual student's classroom Weblogs.

Online bookmarking services allow you to save links, annotate them with unique key words "tags" to organize them, and share them with the world. These services take all of the entries that are tagged the same way and connect them, and then connect all of the people who posted those links in the first place. Social bookmarking connects us with what others read and consequently allows us to tap into the work of others to support out own learning. (Will Richardson)

Students and teachers can include digital images in the content they create and publish to the Web. Flickr is probably the best online photo management and sharing tool. Flickr allows users to add tags and notes to organize their photos and other users can make comments about their work. When publishing images to the Web, privacy options can be selected to make viewing and sharing access restricted to your class alone.

Digital voice and video files can be produced and published on the Internet allowing students to communicate in a number of different media. RSS allows people to subscribe to podcasts and videoblogs.

Podcasts are radio shows that are downloaded over the Internet; all that is required to do this is a digital audi recorder that can create an MP3 file, server space to host the file, a blog, and a message.

A videoblog, or vlog, is a Web log (blog) that uses video rather than text or audio as its primary media source; videoblogs are usually accompanied by text or still images.

Many of the resources listed above are from Will Richardson's most recent publication, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Copies of the book are available in Yukon schools.