Wikis

What is a Wiki?
A wiki is a web page that several people can easily edit. Wiki is short for “wikiwikiWeb”, first developed by Ward Cunningham in 1995. “Wiki” means “quick” in Hawaiian. From Wikipedia: " A **wiki** is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, and typically without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring." For a video overview, Common Craft offers "Wikis Described in Plain English."

Examples and Uses
A Wiki Walk-Through, from TeachersFirst. A great tutorial about what a wiki is, why to use wikis in education, and how to use wikis in education.

The EduWikis page in wikispaces offers articles designed to answer the question, "How can I use wikis in education?" as well as pointers to examples of educational wikis.

http://mrlindsay.pbwiki.com/ is Mr. Lindsay's elementary classroom wiki, where he demos his students' work with book reviews, poems, stories, and tons of other resources. Mr. Lindsay calls it a wiki run "by the students, for the students."

Elementary Example

Additional Examples

Getting Started
A Wiki Walk-Through, from TeachersFirst. A great tutorial about what a wiki is, why to use wikis in education, and how to use wikis in education.

If you would like to create a wiki on wikispaces.com, just choose the 'Help' menu in the top right corner at any time to find tutorials. Click here to start an ad-free wikispace as an educator.

Calaxy offers free space for wikis to educators. Here is a middle school example of what a Calaxy wiki looks like.