LCDLC Presents: Technology Toolbox

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LCDLC Presents Technology Toolbox

• Hot Topic Wikis

Online collaborative learning made easy?
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• www.lcdlc.org/TechTBX_Wiki.htm

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What is a Wiki???

• A wiki is a website that allows the visitors
  themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise
  edit and change available content, and typically
  without the need for registration. This ease of
  interaction and operation makes a wiki an
  effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.
  The term wiki also can refer to the collaborative
  software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates
  the operation of such a Web site, or to certain
  specific wiki sites, including the computer
  science site (the original wiki) WikiWikiWeb and
  on-line encyclopedias such as Wikipedia.

www.Wikipedia.com
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Who came up with this idea?

• 1994 Developed by Ward Cunningham
• promising way to develop private and public
  knowledge bases
• Wiki is the Hawaiian-language word for fast.
• 2000 Nupedia (peer-review)
• 2001 Wikipedia was launched
• Wikis have become collaborationtool used by
  business, organizationsand education

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WikipediaTomorrows Encyclopedia?

• Wikipedia is written collaboratively by
  volunteers, allowing most of its articles to be
  edited by nearly anyone with access to the Web
  site.
• 6 Million articles 1.5 in English alone
• One of the top 15 visited sites on the web

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Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia

• Updated content
• Technology Search
• Credibility
• http//www.news.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm
  
• Collaborative

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Discussions
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Update History
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Show me your Wiki?I hardly know you.

• Collaboration with other professionals
• Other Schools
• Department or Grade Level
• http//westwood.wikispaces.com/Westwoodwikilinks
  page
• Project Based Learning
• http//avonmagnolia.wikispaces.com/

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Creating your own WikiWow that was easy

• Public Hosted
• Wiki Spaces www.wikispaces.com
• Peanut Butter Wiki www.pbwiki.com
• Tiddly Wiki - www.tiddlywiki.com
• District Hosted
• Media Wiki www.mediawiki.com
• Twiki - http//twiki.org/

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