Wikis Explained by Common Craft

These four friends are going on a camping trip. They need to bring the right supplies because they're backpacking. The group needs to plan and plan well, so coordination is key. They're all computer users, so they start planning with an email. The important information is scattered across everyone's inbox. There is a better way. Most wikis work the same. The buttons are really important. Here are our camping friends and here is a wiki website. Once you're finished editing, you click save and the document becomes a webpage once again, and is ready for the next person to edit it - easy! Edit - Write - and Save. Mary signs up for a wiki site and then sees the new site for the first time. Now it's John's turn. Henry visits the wiki, clicks edit and he can edit the page. Frank saves the page and realizes something awesome. But wait! John visits the wiki and clicks edit to edit the page. John clicks save and next, Frank visits the wiki and sees the lists and the link to the new page.

Wikispaces Travail collaboratif avec un wiki Les sites wikis sont des outils permettant de partager rapidement de l’information, puis de la compléter et de l’organiser progressivement. Si ce mode de rédaction collaboratif a d’abord été popularisé à travers le projet encyclopédique Wikipédia 1, des applications plus limitées en sont également possibles, autour de thèmes spécifiques et de communautés d’utilisateurs déterminées. La facilité d’utilisation et de mise en place des wikis en fait l’un des instruments privilégiés que les professionnels de l’information peuvent maintenant utiliser pour mutualiser leurs connaissances ou pour accompagner leurs projets. Cet article propose quelques conseils d’utilisation de ces sites, fondés sur les expériences de bibliothécaires français et américains. Pourquoi choisir un wiki ? Il existe différentes formes d’usages collaboratifs sur internet, présentant chacun des avantages et des inconvénients 2. Comment participer à un wiki ? Comment installer un wiki ? Comment susciter de la participation ?

Wikis Print Version Wikis A wiki is a collaborative tool that allows students to contribute and modify one or more pages of course related materials. In many classrooms, the instructor provides most of the course content. When to use a wiki As you’re beginning to see, wikis are ideal for group projects that emphasize collaboration and editing. Mini research projects in which the wiki serves as documentation of student workCollaborative annotated bibliographies where students add summaries and critiques about course-related readingsCompiling a manual or glossary of useful terms or concepts related to the course, or even a guide to a major course conceptMaintaining a collection of links where the instructor and students can post, comment, group or classify links relevant to the courseBuilding an online repository of course documents where instructors and students can post relevant documentsCreating e-portfolios of student work Curious about how other instructors are using wikis? Why use a wiki?

Wiki Walk-Through: The Basics Basics: What in the world is a wiki? Roll over the questions at left to unravel the wonderful world of wikis. I know the basics. Take me to some ideas for how to use a wiki in my teaching. What's a wiki? A wiki is a web site that lets any visitor become a participant: you can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools. Who uses wikis? Wikis are used in the “real world” (outside of K-12 schools) by people collaborating on projects or trying to share things online, such as family information and photos, technical information from users of a product, data from a research and development project, wine expertise, travel journals from abroad, club or specialty information, or projects like collaborative cookbooks. Sometimes they are used for free expression, such as a youth group online graffiti space. What is the difference between a wiki and a blog? A wiki has a far more open structure and allows others to change what one person has written.