Wikis
"Wiki" is the word for "fast" in Hawaiian. A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses them to contribute or modify the content easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative sites and to power online communities. Wikis are used in education to allow students to co-create documents and research topics collaboratively. Watch the video on wikis (4 min.)
The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is the most popular example of a wiki today. Wikis have several key characteristics, which include:
• May invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Website, using only a simple Web browser.
• Promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not.
• Seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Website landscape. A wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively, iteratively, in a simple markup language using a Web browser. A single page in a wiki Website is referred to as a “wiki page”. The entire collection of pages, which are usually well interconnected by hyperlinks, is "the wiki". A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. Many wikis are open to alteration by the general public. Many edits can be made in real-time and appear almost instantly online.
Taken from: http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=28813
Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki and http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
Watch these videos and create your own wiki workspace following the instructions below.
This video will help you to understand what wikis are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&feature=youtu.be
This video will give you a clue on how to create your own projects in wikis.
Directions:
1. Follow the link (pay attention to the number of the group in the URL)
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2. Press the button "Edit" (at the upper left corner). Ask for a permission to edit this posts by sending a request to the page administrator (that's me). You will have to enter your email address.
3. Enter your email box and wait for a confirmation to arrive.
4. Follow the link from your email box and create your own account on pbworks.com.
5. Edit the post (the task is set in the comment under the poem).
Your home assignments are:
1. Finish translating the poem.
2. Watch the video below and leave a comment on the usage of blogs versus wikis.
3. Create your own wiki page in PHILOLOGY2010.pbworks.com and add your ideas about usage of wikis in teachig
