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Wiki Page about Wikis

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What's a Wiki?

Watch the video to get a great understanding of what a wiki is and why you'd use one.

A little History- incase you were wondering...

The word wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning 'quick' or 'fast'. There are currently many wiki tools available via the internet. Simpley put, a wiki is a web page that can be manipulated by many authors and is primarily used for collaborative creative work.

You might be most familiar with a wiki in reference to Wikipedia. It's the online encylopedia that brings free knowledge to people all over the world in their native languages. It was proposed on January 10, 2001 and launched on January 15, 2001. Since then wikipedia has experienced mass expansion. Within just a year it encompassed 18 language editions and offered 20,000 articles. The rapid growth continued and the number for the following years were as follows: 26 language editions by the end of 2002; 46 by the end of 2003; and 161 by the end of 2004. While safeguards are in place, it's content is created by people from all over who share their expert knowledge in all areas. It's a massive collaborative knowledge bank. What a great resource!

How is this beneficial in the classroom?

There are several ways that teachers can utilize this technological innovation in their classroom. Here are a few:

Wikis can be used to showcase student’s completed assignments or as a teacher webpage. (This can help to encourage students to do their best work because their work will be viewed by an authentic public audience.)
- Example: Miss Sheppard's K/1 Loop
Schools can create websites to open up communication between parents, students, teacher, and school faculty.
- Example: St. Francois Xavier Community Schoo l
Teacher’s can create a page for their class
- This allows teachers to post assignments, documents/handouts, syllabi, etc. online so studets always have access to papers they may have lost.
- Example: The Thinking Machine
Wikis can be used to allow students to do group projects where they can collaborate their ideas online.
- Example: Oh...that's what you're doing!!
A school can create a school newspaper
- Example: School newpaper
Used to share online interactive learning sites
- Example: Mathmaze