Web 2.0 Tools: Wikis

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This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to wikis, a web 2.0 technology that can be used for easily designing, producing, publishing, and editing web pages. Attend this workshop to gain an understanding of what wikis are, where you may obtain a free wiki accounts, and how you might use wikis to better facilitate teaching and learning.

1 Outcomes
2 Web 2.0 Tools: Quick, Quick and Easy, Easy Wiki Websites Workshop
3 Wiki Features
4 Specific Wiki Tools
5 How/Why Use Wiki Technologies
6 Resources and Links

Outcomes

After attending this workshop participants shall be able to:

Describe the main elements of wiki tools.
Set-up a free, web-based wiki accounts.
Outline what wikis can do based on hands-on experience with the tool.
Discuss reasons for using wikis to better facilitate teaching and learning and/or other work processes.
Identify particular challenges common to incorporating wikis into courses.

Web 2.0 Tools: Quick, Quick and Easy, Easy Wiki Websites Workshop

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Wiki Features

Wikis are websites that allow for collaboration between multiple authors to create content. Wikis can be public or private depending upon how they are set up. Wikis allow for linking and embedding of images, videos, and sound files. Wikis are often searchable, making them potentially complex, nested, multimodal documents.

Common Features:

WYSIWYG Editing and Posting
Tagging
Tracking changes/versions
Chat
Message threads/discussions

Specific Wiki Tools

Wikis

How/Why Use Wiki Technologies

How might you use Wikis in Teaching?

Collaborative group projects
In-process view of student work (instructors can easily comment upon it)
Portfolios
Reading responses (example: http://courses.kathiegossett.com/fa07/engl801/index.php?title=Main_Page)
Collaborative resource building
Textbook (or http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition example)

How might your students use Wikis in their lives?

Collaboration with clubs, family members, and community groups (Example: http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000648.html)
Make their own website without needing to have high-tech web authoring skills
Specialized topical wikis
Workplace wikis

How might you use Wikis in Scholarship?