wikis in teaching and learning
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An overview of the use of wikis in teaching and learningTRANSCRIPT
WIKI
What is a wiki?
A wiki is many things. Here are the key features:The ability to create and edit pages directly via a web browserA page history, and the ability to roll back changesA list of recently changed pagesSearch
The ability to create and edit pages directly via a web browser
A page history, and the ability to roll back changes
Recent changes
Search
Enterprise wiki?
Page, space and group Permissions Email notification Attachment search WYSIWYG Editing RSS Feeds Export to PDF File Attachments and versions Tight Permission control Slick interface
The Wiki Way
Work is done collaboratively on common wiki pages.
The Wiki Way
A wiki culture of openness and wiki etiquette is adopted by the users
The Wiki Way
Wiki pages replace documents
The Wiki Way
Wiki notifications replace emails
Wiki History
Ward Cunningham in 1995 Ideas from Apples 'Hypercard' product A new idea: A link to an empty page becomes a link to create the page The first wiki is still alive at http://c2.com The wiki was Ward's first attempt at programming in Perl
Wikipedia
Usage of Wikis
➲ Most large organisations
Usage of Wikis
➲ Probably all technical organisations
Usage of Wikis
➲ Many many others.
Usage of Wikis
➲ Open Source are thought leaders
The Hype is Real: Social Media Invades the Inc. 500
Research Conducted by:Eric Mattson ([email protected])
Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D. ([email protected])
Research by University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth
➲Telephone survey of the 500 fastest growing companies in U.S.
