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__**Great Examples of Educational Wikis:**__
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Ways to create an online student blog for purposeful discussions. Edublogs-  -     First, create an Edublogs site for the class, or classes to which you would like the discussion to take place.  -     For the students, there are two ways of setting them up with user names. First, you can have them create their own user names with emails they may have, or with free emails at Gmail. Second, the teacher can have more control by creating their own Gmail account, and using the teacheremail+student@gmail.com  method. This would allow the teacher to see what the students are up to because all email alerts would go to the teacher. With this case the teacher would have to create all usernames and passwords for the students.  -     With usernames created, teacher should make the students authors, so they can add posts, and comment on the site.  -     If the teacher wants to make sure that her/his posts are only being seen and commented on by the students, then when they create the post, they can password protect the post.  -     Edublogs can be very secure with each student having user names and passwords, and by also password protecting the posts. Blogger-  -     First, you will need a Gmail account in order to create a Blogger site.  -     Create a Blogger account, then either have the students create their own accounts using their own Gmail accounts, or the teacher can create the students accounts by using  teacheremail+student@gmail.com  as the students email. This would allow the teachers to have more control over seeing what the students are doing.  -     The  teacheremail+student@gmail.com  method is a bit more time consuming for the teacher, but like stated before, gives the teacher more control.  -     Blogger allows students and teachers to create posts and comment on posts that have already been created.  -     The site itself is more secure then Edublogs, but with password protected posts on Edublogs, the biggest difference is the design of the Edublogs site being more advanced, while Blogger is less complicated. PB Wiki-  -     To create the PB Wiki, first the teacher has to sign up for a PB Wiki account.  -     PB Wiki allows teachers to add information onto the wiki, and organize it by using the folders within the wiki.  -     By either having students create their own usernames, or having the teacher create the students usernames and passwords by having the teacher use the  teacheremail+student@gmail.com  method, the teacher can make all the students writers, thus allowing the students to add information, and comment on information that has already been added to the wiki. PB Wiki security allows the teacher to make the wiki only viewable to those users that are invited.