The easiest way to describe what a Wikis is... It is a quick-to-build, easy-to-edit website on which all information can be edited, changed, or rewritten by the users or members of the site. It is an incredibly useful tool for collaborative writing, pooling knowledge or exchanging ideas, especially on a subject that changes or needs updating frequently.
There are many uses for wiki's... conference planning, collaboratve editing of documents, Meetings, project space, in place of structured courseware, presentation medium, web-based notebook to organizer your thoughts...
Before this exercise I was not really informed about what really a wiki was. I knew about wikipedia and fought a battle with students using the information in their research papers. So needless to say I was not impressed. But after realizing what a wiki was I am changing my mind. I really liked how you can have all your information available for you in one area. I liked the book lovers wiki. I spent most of my time looking at all the different reviews of books. I even called a good friend who is a libriarian to tell him about the new find and he told me he was already a member of the wiki. I also spent some time on some of the teacher wiki's.
I would like to find a specific wiki for middle school science teachers so we can share our resources and experiences.
I would also like to explore if we can use the students gaggle accounts to create wiki's for them so they can have a more structured atmosphere to conduct research.
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