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Blog vs. Wiki
This table is designed to compare your blog (which you are hopefully fairly comfortable with by now) to a wiki (which for most of the students in this class is a new tool). pick a name that has to do with EDU 101 or your first education class or you as a future teacher || http://yournamehere.wikispaces.com at wikispaces, the wiki name is the same as the URL || today you're making a wiki about professional organizations; the URL name and the name of the wiki will be the same thing; pick something descriptive about your concentration and/or professional organizations ||
 * **Feature** || **Blog (blogger.com)** || **Wiki (wikispaces.com)** || **Your wikispaces account and first wiki** ||
 * **username** || the email address that you used to set up your blog account is also your username || a name that you pick that people will see as the "owner" of your wiki. Each username is unique in Wiki spaces (you have to pick one that nobody else has). Pick a name that includes your first name, doesn't include your last name (so that we'll know who you are but the rest of the world won't) and is professional. || pick a professional sounding user name that's all one word and includes your first name; it will have to be unique (no two wikispace users can have the same user name) ||
 * **display name** || a name that you pick that people will as the "owner" of this blog; it's also what name appears when you leave comments (the same as a username in a wiki except that more than one person can have the same display name) || your username is the same as a display name in wikispaces || n/a ||
 * **URL** || http://yournamehere.blogspot.com
 * **Title** || the title of your blog does not have to be related to the URL that you picked; the title can have spaces, capital letters, punctuation, etc.; you can change the title later if you want || the title for a wikispace is the same as its URL name; it will appear on the top left corner of the home page || n/a ||
 * **following/**
 * joining** || you can //**follow**// a blog--this indicates that you like this blog and will read it often; it's a compliment to the author if you follow it; you can also get this blog added to your Google Reader or other aggregator || if you ask to //**join**// a wiki, you are asking to be made a member of the wiki; on private wikis or protected wikis, being a member allows you to make edits to the wiki ||  ||

Set up an account
at http://wikispaces.com (pick "for teachers")

NOTE: If you already have an account, do not create a new account, rather, log in to your account and pick "create a wiki."

Create a wiki
then click "Create"
 * Wiki Name:** pick a name for your wiki space that is descriptive of the content
 * Wiki Permissions:** pick "Public" for now; you can change it later; Protected is best. It may require you to "prove that you're human" by either giving them a credit card number or a phone number and they'll text you a code. If you're not comfortable with either of those, then pick the one that allows you to have up to 5 members and make texastheresa a member
 * Wiki Type:** pick "Higher Education" from the drop down menu

**Just for fun**
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