Wikis

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This a video talking about wikis and how they work, they also have a slight explanation of how to use it. Brought to you by teacher tube and commen crafts.

A wiki is defined as a website that allows visitors to add, remove and edit content. Often used to create collaborative websites. The most well known wiki is wikipedia.

Wikipedia is a online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The co-founder Jimmy Wales said that wikipedia existed so that people could create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest quality to every single person on the planet in his or her own language, basically meaning the site exists so that those who want it can get knowledge about a subject or topic. Wikipedia is used in education because it is any information site that can be easily accessed. The only thing that i would be careful of it that Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, so some of the information could be inaccurate.

Wikispaces are used to discuss something that is important to the user, while getting opinions and information from other people who read your wiki. This is concept can be used by schools as it teaches allows kids to dicuss topics while getting feedback, also it is a way of communication. For example kids in Victoria might dicuss topics with kids in Europe.

media type="custom" key="2000516" This video explains PBwikis and how they can be used in education.

Both teachers and students can use wiki's as they are a collarboration of ideas. So they can share with the world their ideas.

Some examples of teaching wikis are Code Blue, a wiki aimed at grade six kids that is all about the human body, it has plenty of links and lots of activities so its fun. http://codeblue.wikispaces.com/ Also for younger kids their is a site dedicated to the Lord of the Rings books. It has images, links, pictures that have been drawn by kids, and sites explaining certain characters and places within the book.