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Blogs, Wikis and Other Web Wonders

Weblog: A website which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage (definition from Wikipedia)

Need more information? See Karen's Blog Page.

Wikis:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A wiki (pronounced "wicky" or "weeky") is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that gives users the ability to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows that content to be edited by other users.

Other Possibilities:

Fiction Press: Original fiction and poetry can be published online at Fiction Press.

Fan Fiction: http://www.fanfiction.net

MidLink Magazine provides a publishing venue for student work on a variety of projects: http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/

Letters to Santa, one of the original online collaborative projects, is still going strong. Younger students send email to Santa and the older students answer those letters. This free project does require registration: http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/GSH/project/santa/

For a slightly more unconventional place to publish, try the BBC's h2g2, a user-published website originally begun by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. Entries range from informative to informal so students have a wide range of options.

And just for fun..the Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/web/web.php