Sites that support Teacher Professional Development

Static sites:

Can contain text, images, multimedia content and HTML tags hosted on a web server.

Pages may contain animated or interactive media- movie clips, Adobe flash presentations and mictosoft silverlite.

BLOG and Wiki

     Their pages are defined by interactivity

These are dynamic sites which have features that are defined by the interactions of the user.

They draw ever- changing content from external information sources

Their pages can provide create, retrieve, update, delete functions

 More specifically,

BLOGS:

1. Are author centered

2. Organised in reverse order most recent posts show on the  entry page

3. Reflect the author's identity in tone look feel and content

4. Used to reflect and review eg learning reflections

WIKIS

1. Are content/document centered

2. Editable website with a complete version history kept

3. Aims to reach a consensus or compromise on the content of  the page

4.used to collaborate and synthesise ie group projects.

These differences are further elaborated in the following 

links: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY5acLmS3RQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY    
http://ethosconsult
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXl

In conclusion,

1. A teacher's professional Development is highly dependent on both the static and the dynamic websites depending on his/her purpose although for creating a net work or learning from one another, the dynamic sites are the best why?
2. 1. The teacher has the ability to pull information from sources external to the website proper.
3. 2. It allows for editing, adding website pages(content) from within a browser.