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We will be using this wiki in order to gain a better idea of how a wiki works. You will want to read the chapter on Wikis in the Richardson book (that's your "read on" book for technology; the Wordpress book is reference only).
What is a wiki?
In a technical sense, a wiki is an interactive, online space. In explaining wikis, I like to think about ice-cream (yes, ice-cream)! Ice-cream is a type of food (a wiki is a type of interactive, online space). There are many different flavors of ice-cream, such as chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla (there are many different flavors of wikis such as wetpaint, wikispaces and wikia - the wiki "flavor" that hosts wikipedia).
Teachers appreciate wikis for multiple reasons, including:
- wikis inspire and support collaborative writing, a necessary skill for most professionals today.
- wikis inspire and support collaboration on projects, such as the camping trip example shown here.
- wikis save a revision history, making it possible to review the multiple revisions that a page has undergone. the possibilities for collaborative writing the wiki inspires.
Educational Wikis
Links to Pages for Blogging and Beyond
Hildegard's Writers Retreat
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