Wikis for Pedagogy

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	video courtesy of CommonCraft

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

video courtesy of CommonCraft

Tools

Wiki matrix (for wiki selection information go to: http://www.wikimatrix.org)

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?

Portfolios
Reading responses (example: http://courses.kathiegossett.com/fa07/engl801/index.php?title=Main_Page)
Collaborative resource building for group projects
Textbook (example:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Social_and_Cultural_Foundations_of_American_Education/First_Edition or http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition)
The Trivium Wiki: an anthology of readings about new media (grammar) and a handbook for producing new media (rhetoric), as well as a discussion/analysis of the relationship between classical rhetoric and new media (dialectic).

Workshop examples of pedagogical uses

How might students use wikis in their lives?

Specialized topical wikis
Workplace wikis

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