Wiki and the Educator

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What is a Wiki?

A wiki is a website that is easy to edit using a regular web browser. If you can use a word processor, copy and paste, and send an email attachment, you can create a wiki.

A wiki may include text, images, web links, file attachments, audio, video and other embedded media.

Wiki software automatically records every edit and archives every saved version of a page, making it easy to track changes and "roll-back" to a former version of a page.

What do you want your wiki to be?

Why Wikis in Education?

Wikis are simple to create and easy to use. They encourage collaboration and shared knowledge construction. They are often built and edited by many users at once.

Teachers and students can use wikis for publishing, organizing, and sharing virtually any content.

Wiki Wiki is a reduplication of wiki, a Hawaiian word for "fast". Some have suggested that wiki means, "What I Know Is." However, this is a backronym.
Resource- Wikipedia.com

IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOUND HERE

Want to start a Ed Wiki? How about take a Wiki Quiz?

See Relative Advantage of Wiki's in Education, Here.

Wiki Links and Web Resources

Guidelines for Wiki use

According to Palloff and Pratt (cited in Li, 2003 and Muirhead, 2004)

1) communication and feedback;

2) interactivity and a sense of community; and

3) adequate direction and empowerment to carry out the tasks required for the course.

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