Wikissentials

WATESOL Fall Convention

October 13, 2007

George Mason University

What’s a wiki?

An easily editable website

A group of related web pages

A place to store files

How is a wiki different from any other webpage? No HTML!

Any authorized user can edit it.

A complete history of each page is kept.

How is a wiki different from a blog?

Wikis Potentially many pages

Not in chronological order

Equal contributions from all with editing privileges

Blogs A single expandable

page Reverse chronological

order

Author(s) post; visitors comment

What are wikis used for?

Wikipedia (the mother of all wikis) Professional development Planning a class or a program Class website In teaching

Eric: Writing students collaborate on a single document

Kim: Students in a special program develop individual pages