A small group met in the CTL Wednesday to discuss aspects of “web 2.0” technologies and their pedagogical uses. We discussed the various uses of blogs, wikis, and email groups.

• Blogs, best for one or a small group of “authors” who wish to put out information and receive comments from a private or public group of readers;
• Wikis – excellent for collaborative projects such as co-edited documents, or also good for a class work repository;
• Email groups – if you just want to get the word out about meetings, links, news.

We also looked at an actual BCC student gmail account, with its very simplified selection of google tools – basically email and calendar only.  Google apps http://www.google.com/apps/ may be an area for further explanation if/when we decide to open those tools up to students.