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Wikis are websites that allow for collaboration between multiple authors to create content. Wikis can be public or private depending upon how they are set up. Wikis allow for linking and embedding of images, videos, and sound files. Wikis are often searchable.This makes them potentially complex, nested, multimodal documents.

Wikis are useful collaboration tools that often have the following additional capabilities:
  • Tracking changes/versions
  • References
  • Peer editing functionality
  • Chat
  • Message threads/discussion
  • And more

Common Features:
  • WYSIWYG Editing and Posting
  • Tagging
  • Tracking changes/versions
  • Chat
  • Message threads/discussions

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Tools
Wikisoftware (requires a server and often wiki markup language knowledge, which is similar to html, but slightly different. Can be more robust than many of the wysiwyg wikis)
  • Mediawiki
  • phpWiki
Free wysiwyg wikis (for a comparison go to: http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/PBwiki+Wetpaint+Zoho-Wiki)
  • PBwiki (includes voice chat)
  • Wetpaint (has educational access ad-free if you request it. includes IM chat in the widgets)
  • Zohowiki (more limited than PBwiki and Wetpaint but it is part of a suite of free online document sharing applications)
How might you use wikis in your scholarship?
  • Collaborative writing
  • Bank of resources
How might you use wikis in your pedagogy?

Workshop examples of pedagogical uses

How might students use wikis in their lives?

  • Specialized topical wikis
  • Workplace wikis



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