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I have had a very limited experience with blogs and wiki's. I did set up a wiki for scheduling library instruction at Newfound Regional HS. It was a pb works wiki. When the district went to  using google sites we gravitated to google calendar and did not use the wiki.  The wiki could have been used for library assignments but teachers did not use it. It was great for scheduling.

Blogs have only one author and are not interactive.  They are useful for news. Blogs  can be useful for classrooms. Wiki's are interactive. Blogs are a wonderful tool to inform the class about websites and  review web 2.0 tools.

A Wiki would be useful for a librarian who needs to post links to databases and websites and library catalogs.
Teachers could use a wiki for homework assignments.
I have used  Nancy Keane's podcasts . Ms. Keane  is a middle school librarian in Concord who has fantastic podcasts for young adult literature. I just found a great series of podcasts entitled Cliff Notes Cram Casts that would be useful for students and special education teachers. There are times when students need to review the book they have read or need an alternative to  differentiate  instruction.

All of these web 2.0 tools encourage active teaching.