What are wikis?
A wiki is a collaborative hypertext document created by a software application that enables web documents to be authored collectively using a simple markup scheme and without the content being reviewed before its acceptance. You can browse a sample wiki site by its inventor, Ward Cunningham, at: http://c2.com/cgi/WIKI?
WIKI-WORKSHOP FOR THE ECE COMMUNITY (Under Construction!!!) The word “Wiki” comes the Hawaiian word for “fast”. Wikis, like the one you are reading right now, are a great way for a group of educators to collaborate and share information. They are not perfect. They can inaccurate information because anyone can contribute. A wiki’s greatest strength is also a weakness. INTRODUCTION How do you learn about a Wiki? From a wiki, of course. Go read this — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki The Commoncraft website has a video demo “Wikis in Plain English ” that is a short, explanatory video. SETTING UP YOUR FIRST WIKI Obviously we set up this page using Wikispaces. I (WB) first learned of Wikispaces (this service) from my co-teacher Jim Reineke when we set up a Wiki for our summer class at Michigan State University. Have a look at that page — http://maet2007.wikispaces.com and you can see how valuable it was for our class. Wikis are great when a group of people want to collect knowledge, abou
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