A wiki can be a great educational tool. Wiki is short for Wiki Wiki, which is the Hawaiian word for quick. Will Richardson's chapter in Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classroom on Wikis is aptly titled "Wikis: Easy Collaboration for All". From the previous two sentences, one can see that a Wiki is quick, easy, and collaborative. If you are unaware of what a Wiki is, please watch the video below.
Uses in Education
Wikis can be used for a variety of things in education. Teachers can use them for classroom websites. Students can use them as a way to keep track of their online work. Students can also use a wiki as a collaboration project.
Example of wiki used as a classroom page: Raymo's Sociology Class
Example of wiki used as a collaborative project: Mayflower Wiki
Wiki Creation Sites
It really doesn't matter what website you go with to create your wiki, each has their own perks and are all relatively the same to use.
Wikispaces
Wetpaint
PBworks
Wikidot
dooWikis
My Thoughts
I often forget about Wikis. I think it is because of my bias toward Google, and the ability to create sites using Google and the collaborative nature of some of the Google tools. Wikis are very easy to use and they are easily customizable. I would like to use them more and will make it a point this semester to use it in my classroom in one way or another.
Almost forgot to place a link to the worlds most famous wiki...Wikipedia.
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