#08 What's A Wiki? Blog? Podcasting?

Discover what a Wiki is by clicking here!

Obviously, there's more to come for Halifax County School Division on the "w" word, the "b" word and the "p" word...

To begin, start learning a few of the differences between them.

1. YOU have the one and only password to YOUR blog; it's your personal journal to the world. Others can add comments about your blog but they can't change what YOU write.
   
2. Lots of people can work on the same "wiki" without sharing a password. As a matter of fact, wiki's are designed to be created and written to by many people. Each one adds a little.
   
3. Podcasting. Podcasting refers to a "store and forward" technology that allows you to manually or automaticcally download content from a server. Its name comes from the IPOD world. The IPOD was originally designed to allow downloading of music in mp3 format; the content downloaded to an IPOD now is limited only to imagination. Recently the IPOD has been expaned to include video content.
   

Here's a free place to start a blog!

Just remember, that when it comes to the Internet, especially the wiki world," Nobody knows you're a dog.