Technology Integration
Wikis
What are they?
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. In other words, Wiki Web sites are sites designed for users to be able to make additions or edit any page of the site. They often have a common vocabulary, and consider themselves a "Wiki" community. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.
Sources: http://www.answers.com/topic/wiki and http://www.wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
Understanding Wikis
http://writingwiki.org/default.aspx/WritingWiki/UnderstandingWikis.html
Description: A website for understanding Wikis.
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