Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools.
With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.
Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:
- Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
- Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
- Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
- And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.
This week you will complete 2 activities:
#16 So what’s in a wiki?
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Link here to the discovery exercise #16 about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.
Link here to the discovery exercise #16 about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.
#17 Playing around with PBWiki
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Link here to exercise #17 - Add an entry to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.
Don't forget to write your thoughts on wikis in your blog
