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Welcome to Wikis

Welcome to Wikis. A wiki is a website that allows visitors to easily add, remove and change content. What are Wikis ????. From the wikipedia: www.wikipedia.com. How Wikis Have Been Described. Collaborative writing Collective knowledgebase Conversational technologies

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Welcome to Wikis

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  1. Welcome to Wikis A wiki is a website that allows visitors to easily add, remove and change content. What are Wikis ???? From the wikipedia: www.wikipedia.com

  2. How Wikis Have Been Described Collaborative writing Collective knowledgebase Conversational technologies Knowledge management tool

  3. Wiki Characteristics • Community built website • Usually focused on a topic or goal • Self organizing - anyone can suggest topics or categories to add to the wiki • Can designate level of control—open to all or limited to members • Easy to create new web pages to add content • Prior versions feature - “Rollback” • Free versions or subscription for more functionality • Other characteristics?

  4. "A wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape." (Leuf & Cunningham 2001) (Leuf, Bo and Ward Cunningham. The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson, 2001: 16.) Taken from http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=What_is_a_Wiki

  5. Wiki Examples Biz Wiki http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Main_Page Rhetoric & Comp wiki http://epochewiki.pbwiki.com/ Albany County Public Library Staff Wikihttp://albystaff.pbwiki.com/ Progressive Librarians Guild: University of Arizona Chapter Wiki http://plg-sirls.pbwiki.com/ Horizon Report – 2008 http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_Page Webwise Conference Wikihttp://webwise2008.fcla.edu/wiki/Welcome_to_WebWise_2008 ACRL Literatures in English Section Wiki http://literaturesinenglish.pbwiki.com/

  6. ualteach wiki We hope you will join us to add web resources, ideas, articles about teaching & learning, start a discussion!!

  7. Wiki Uses in the Library ?

  8. Creating a wiki ‘easy as making a peanut butter sandwich’ pbwiki • Determine focus of wiki • Create an account – free or fee? • Identify organizational elements • Management of wiki – level of control, membership

  9. Resources Compare Wikis ...or more information than you want to know WikiMatrix http://www.wikimatrix.org/ Article: “Wikipedia and the New Curriculum -- Digital Literacy Is Knowing How We Store What We Know” By David Parry. Monday, February 11th, 2008. Available at:http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/02/wikipedia-and-the-new-curriculum/

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