Wikis


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**Quick** **Info on Wikis:**
 * With a wiki you can build simple web pages that families, friends, and groups can work on and edit together.
 * A wiki is great for any kind of group website. It's for families, classrooms, sports teams, community groups, book clubs, fan clubs and more.
 * The most extensive Wiki is Wikipedia
 * Wikispaces is a great place to create a simple, free Wiki
 * Wikis can be community edit pages, or read only with editing available to accepted members.
 * A wiki is a collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.
 * To see more information on how to use a Wiki see the video “[|Wikis in Plain English].”
 * [|How Stuff Works-Wikis]
 * Important wiki features:**
 * editability by anyone - a wiki page is editable by anyone with a web browser
 * ability to view recent changes
 * ability to search pages (several ways)
 * ability to very easily add new pages
 * ability to see the change history for a document
 * ability to add new information or modify existing information
 * Wiki How To

**Wikis In Depth:** A wiki is a website that allows multiple people to display and save their own input. It is a collaboration of a website and a word document according to the article “[|What is a Wiki].” The saved edition becomes the updated version that everyone else can see on their own computers. This allows multiple people to collaborate through one website if they have internet access. Wikis are easy and less time consuming because emails do not have to be sent to different people stating the same thing. Everyone can add or delete what they want and everyone else can see it on just one page. Wikis can be used in education by teachers and students. An idea from “[|The State of Wikis in Education]” is that teachers can use a Wiki to put their course syllabi on so it is easy to convert to each semester and their policies. Wikis can be used by students for group projects to share their information to the others without email and very efficiently. Some teachers have online courses that just use a Wiki to get the course information out and assignments. Some schools use a Wiki as their school newspaper, some use it to get kids to post their works and then others can give feedback so they can edit the piece, and some teachers use it privately to converse with other teachers in the district about current issues ([|How We Use Wikis in Class]). Wikis are a great invention that anyone can use. You can make a Wiki for free and start building a foundation to use in more depth later in life. You never know when you’ll have to make one or use it for something that will be a great deal easier than anything else!