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A Wiki is a shared webspace that allows users and even guests to quickly add, edit, revise, and create collaborative content. A Wiki can be set up to keep track of revisions so that recent content is not lost due to a careless keystroke. A Wiki relies on a very simple approach, but the ability to format text relies on an author’s knowledge of some HTML code.
Students: For team projects a Wiki could easily be used to build content and then create a final project.
Parents: As with others, parents could view a Wiki to see classroom activities. It could even allow parents to work with students to create a project.
Colleagues: Use the Wiki as a shared team space to build curricular projects such as a WebQuest or Research Investigation.
Issues: A Wiki is an incredibly open web publishing tool. Novice users can easily add text, but formatting and adding hyperlinks often relies on some knowledge of HTML coding. Wikis are incredibly insecure, often allowing anyone access to change and alter content. Unless a user adds his name, it is very difficult to determine who created or revised what content.
Resources
- More info and links http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AdventuresInWikiland
- Try one out http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LaunchPad
- Wiki for Discussion http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Generic_Applications_Wiki
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