Wetpaint is an online community that mixes a little bit of everything to create what you want, utilizing features such as wikis, blogs, forums, and social networks.
You can create and organize your own social website or participate with another's!
The Wetpaint name comes from the human's natural sense of curiosity. The urge to touch something when we see a “Wet paint” sign. The urge to leave our mark. This curiosity and the surprising results that occur from collaboration are all part of Wetpaint.
Advantages of the tool (Include 3E’s)
It's free.
You can make your site public or private.
There are click-able keyword tags
You can sign up for email notifications.
Page editing is easy and fun to use with its many features:
Photo/Video Integration
Photo Galleries
Video Galleries
Page Level Discussion Threads
Customizable Page Templates
Layout Zones
Spell Check
Tables
Compare Page Versions
Attachments
Menu of Popular Widgets
Content Modules
All three Es can be applied to this site.
It is effective in teaching other about what interests you while also learning about what interests other. It enhances one's mind by learning about various topics and practicing their technology skills, and it is very efficient because all of the tools are easy to use!
Disadvantages (limitations) of the tool
There are not many disadvatages of this tool, but like any other technological resource, there is always the chance a glitch in the system may occur. Also, these site limits you to the type of media you can use; there is no livechat via video.
Application of the tool in your subject area
Although this tool is a fun way to interact and share your thoughts with others. I would not encourage students of early or elementary childhood education to use it. The audience is too mature for them. However, perhaps a wetpaint site about the classroom could be open exclusively to the parents and the teacher. For example, there is an education forum within the website in which teachers and students can join an educational community where there are more than 2,900 educators work together and share their ideas on how to use wetpaint and other wiki sites in the classroom. A link is posted at the bottom of the page to join the educational community.
Find a tutorial video on YouTube
Useful Resources
If your classmates want to learn more about your topic, where should they go?
Communication Tool:
Group Members: Alison Marsh and Emily MeyersScreenshot or logo
Brief introduction of the tool
Wetpaint is an online community that mixes a little bit of everything to create what you want, utilizing features such as wikis, blogs, forums, and social networks.You can create and organize your own social website or participate with another's!
The Wetpaint name comes from the human's natural sense of curiosity. The urge to touch something when we see a “Wet paint” sign. The urge to leave our mark. This curiosity and the surprising results that occur from collaboration are all part of Wetpaint.
Advantages of the tool (Include 3E’s)
It's free.
You can make your site public or private.
There are click-able keyword tags
You can sign up for email notifications.
Page editing is easy and fun to use with its many features:
- Photo/Video Integration
- Photo Galleries
- Video Galleries
- Page Level Discussion Threads
- Customizable Page Templates
- Layout Zones
- Spell Check
- Tables
- Compare Page Versions
- Attachments
- Menu of Popular Widgets
- Content Modules
All three Es can be applied to this site.It is effective in teaching other about what interests you while also learning about what interests other. It enhances one's mind by learning about various topics and practicing their technology skills, and it is very efficient because all of the tools are easy to use!
There are not many disadvatages of this tool, but like any other technological resource, there is always the chance a glitch in the system may occur. Also, these site limits you to the type of media you can use; there is no livechat via video.Disadvantages (limitations) of the tool
Application of the tool in your subject area
Although this tool is a fun way to interact and share your thoughts with others. I would not encourage students of early or elementary childhood education to use it. The audience is too mature for them. However, perhaps a wetpaint site about the classroom could be open exclusively to the parents and the teacher. For example, there is an education forum within the website in which teachers and students can join an educational community where there are more than 2,900 educators work together and share their ideas on how to use wetpaint and other wiki sites in the classroom. A link is posted at the bottom of the page to join the educational community.Find a tutorial video on YouTube
Useful Resources
If your classmates want to learn more about your topic, where should they go?http://paintsplatters.wetpaint.com/ This website provides how to put paint splatters, or graphical elements only for wetpaint users, onto your wet paint page.
http://aurlibrary.wetpaint.com/page/How+to+Use+this+Site This website provides an explanation on how to use the wetpaint site with links to further help people.
http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/ This website shows how the wetpaint site can be used in the educational community and provides a link to create your own page.
http://www.wetpaintpleasetouch.com/ This website shows three easy steps to creating your own wetpaint site in a fun and interactive format.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqpG0iSzpJU This is another youtube which shows you how to promote your wetpaint site easily to get more members and viewers and just overall more traffic.