- Wiki is short form of the Hawaiian wiki-wiki which means "quick" (p. 55)
- First wiki was created by Ward Cunningham in 1995 (p. 55)
- A wiki is a website where anyone can edit anything anytime they want (p. 55)
The reliability of a wiki has been questioned since everyone can contribute and edit. The understanding is that you have to have faith in the collaborative efforts of the group to keep it safe and reliable. What are your thoughts on this?
The idea of working together, collaboration and negotiation skills are enforced when using a wiki. It is the idea that "everyone together is smarter than anyone alone" (p. 57). How can wikis be used in our library program?
Wikis to read:
Global warming: http://www.tinyurl.com/33885n
Simple English Wikipedia: simple.wikipedia.org
Pedagogical Potentials for Wikis: http://tinyurl.com/2zu6fb
South Africa High School Curriculum: http://tinyurl.com/nvu9v
Wikijunior: http://tinyurl.com/ma7hw
Welker's Wikinomics site: http://tinyurl.com/6ruy3y
Shelley Paul's book study on a wiki: http://tinyurl.com/36sy57
PlanetMath: http://tinyurl.com/9orxf
Please add more wikis to our list as you discover
"Wikis teach students much about how to work with others, how to create community, and how to operate in a world where the creation of knowledge and information is more and more becoming a group effort." (p. 69) This fits in nicely with our Character Education Trait in January: TEAMWORK
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