Wikis

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= = =What is a wiki?= The term wiki is a shorter form of wiki wiki, a Hawaiian word meaning "quick" or "fast".

A wiki is a website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit content, very quickly and easily. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing.

Wikis also can provide a place to share other multimedia such as video, audio, and digital pictures.

For more information go to the [|Encyclopedia of Educational Technology.]

The most famous (or infamous) wiki is [|Wikipedia] and it houses over a million articles just in English; many other languages are represented as well. Terms are interlinked throughout Wikipedia. This is an essential resource for just about anyone; especially educators and students. By the way, if you're worried about accuracy, studies have found that Wikipedia is as reliable as any encyclopedia ([|BBC]).

=Examples= The Flat Classroom Project & The Horizon Project - Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay started these international collaborative projects in 2006 and they are still going [|WikiEducator] - open educational content [|Wikipedia Lesson Plan] - Use this lesson plan to help your students verify the reliability of a Wikipedia entry [|Wiki Quote] - Quotes about education [|Adult Literacy Education] - This wiki was built to support Adult Literacy Education [|Using Wikis in Education] - a wiki with ideas for your classroom [|Wiki Books] - A collection of free, open-content textbooks that you can edit [|Wiktionary] - a multi-language dictionary and thesaurus [|Wikiquote] - an encyclopedia of quotations [|Wikibooks] - an library of etextbooks useful to students [|Wikimedia Commons] (Shared Media) [|Stockepedia] - a free online encyclopedia of the Stock Market, created by and for the investing community [|A Wiki on Virtual Field Trips] [|A Wiki of Blogging Resources]

=Tools= Wikispaces - currently provide K-12 teachers with free no-ad wikis [|PBWiki] [|PBWiki]