Wikis

Definitions
from __Coming Of Age: An Introduction to the New Worldwide Web__ Wiki - a web page that can be edited by anybody who has been granted access to it.

The word wiki is a shortened form of the Hawaiian wiki-wiki which means "quick."

Applications
A way to collaborate!!

[|TeacherTube.com] [|Wiki Wisdom: Lessons for Educators] [|Educators Experiment With Student-Written "Wikis"] [|Teachers First: Wiki Walk-Through] [|Wiki uses] Article from Wikipedia which talks about uses of wikis in education [|Wild About Wikis] Article by David Jakes at techlearning.com [|Using Wikis in Education] [|Choose Your Own Wiki Adventure] [|How I Use Wikis] [|For Teachers New to Wikis] [|Make Way for Wikis] Article talks about applications and benefits of wikis [|Why Wiki?] Article discusses benefits of using wikis

Guidelines
[|Samples from Lubbock, Texas]

Classroom/School Samples
Examples of Classroom Wikis Openline- Stocktrail Elementary [|squareone] Westwood Schools [|New York City Writing Project] [|High School Online Collaborative Writing] [|Grade 3-4's Wikis in Australia] [|ccsdtechfacilitators]

Suggested Sites
[|The 21st Century Classroom: Using Wikis] A webquest designed to introduce educators to wikis and how they might be used in education [|Wikispaces for Educators] Free for educators, free of advertisers, very supportive help [|pbwiki] Make a free wiki as easily as making a peanut butter sandwich. Their words, not mine. ;-) [|Wikibooks] A collection of free content textbooks Joyce Valenza Workshop

[|The Wiki Prayer] Please, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit, The courage to edit the pages I can, And the wisdom to know the difference —The Wiki Prayer