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**Abdul-Rahim Muhammad**
Welcome to Saunderville District's Workshop Support Wiki. This Wikispace will provide you pertinent information to assist you in making use of Edublogs, a web 2.0 technology that has many enhancements that will allow you to engage your students in blogs, wikis and more. You will be able to apply your lesson plans to Edublogs.

**About Abdul-Rahim**
Since 1995 I have developed in-depth working knowledge of computers and software applications. I have had about 14 years of experience in client computer support. Throughout my experience I have supported client systems and applications to help end-users perform their jobs as needed. This also includes providing training support. For the last five years, I have assisted attorneys and attorney support staff to make optimal use of technology so they can perform the tasks for their responsibilities. With a Master's of Education in Instructional Technology, I can better aid you to apply technology's many uses to classroom lesson plans. It is very easy to do this, and there are many cost-effective tools which allow you to create the learning experience you want your students to have. Special emphasis has been placed on blogs and their great features through Edublogs.org. As a teacher, you will become more familiar with the technology and be able to create learning experiences for your students. In the past, most of what was available required you to have extensive programming knowledge. Today, all of that has changed. Anyone can make use of the latest technology without having a Computer Science degree. You can contact me at arahims@gmail.com.

**Web 2.0**
Utech (2010) considers newspapers as Web 1.0 technology, in which "information flows from producers to consumers of knowledge." (p. 1) This does not allow for the reader to communicate with the author, the article, nor other readers. Utech (2010) writes, "Web 2.0 allows conversations. It allows that newspaper to be talked about and to be discussed." (p. 1) Now that we have a general idea of Web 2.0, in what ways can you as a teacher engage your students so they are discussing every topic of your class inside and outside of class? You can give students an assignment and have them discuss it on your classroom blog or wiki. How about having group essays in which a few students will each collaborate on writing a paper, and use a wiki space to discuss and make edits to the final document? These and many other examples illustrate how students can move beyond the pencil and paper to create material online in an interactive manner.

Edublogs
After much investigation, it was decided that Edublogs is a low-cost all-in-one online tool teachers can learn about and easily implement into their lesson plans. This Workshop Support Wiki will give you the know-how so you can get your students blogging, and completing assignments online.

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**Reference**
Utech, J. (2010). Reach. //Building Communities and Networks for Professional Development//. San Francisco: Creative Commons