Readings about Wikis:
- "When Starting a Wiki, Don't Forget about Design"
"Wikis started out as the simplest thing that could possibly work. With that goal, making wikis visually pleasing wasn’t an afterthought – it was deliberately ignored. Now that wikis have entered the mainstream and are being used for a broad range of purposes, its time to step back and remember why design is important. If you want people to stay (and come back) after finding your wiki for the first time, you need to consider your site’s design beyond the generic one provided by the wiki software you’re using." read more - "Does Your Wiki Need a Spring Cleaning?"
"City planners will tell you that an abandoned building can sit untouched for years, but as soon as a single window is broken, vandalism of the building escalates quickly. In programming, this happens with bad or unused code that programmers come across but leave, hesitant to touch someone else’s work. In your wiki, it happens with “dead” pages that are long past their useful life and need to be deleted." read more - "Revision Isn't Cleaning up after the Party; It Is the Party"
"I agree with Kimberly that email is not the right tool, but the phone, teleconference, and meetings aren’t necessarily ideal either. It’s hard to get people together at the same time, something that physical and phone meetings require. What you need is a tool that puts the content online in a shared space, gives everyone access when it’s convenient for their schedules and time zones, and encourages revision." read more - "Enterprise Wiki Software Guide: Tools and Capabilities"
"Looking for a wiki for your team or organization? Do you need to host it on-site, or would you like one that’s hosted for you and ready to go? Do you need to integrate it with other enterprise tools, like email, SharePoint, or your intranet? These are just a couple of the important questions you’ll likely be asking, and one of the following wiki tools may be the right one for you." read more - "Wikis in Education: Teaching Students to Share Knowledge"
"Wikis are gaining popularity in an educational setting as a way to give students a hands-on learning tool. Providers see the demand and are creating wiki tools to help teachers make wider user of wikis in the classroom." read more - "Interview: The State of Wikis in Education"
"Last week, Arielle Pandolph, a graduate student in the College of Information Studies at Florida State University, contacted me to discuss wikis for a course project. She’s currently a student in Dr. Lisa Tripp’s Design and Production of Media Resources course. Arielle says. . . ." read more - "Top 10 Organizational Wiki Tips (and How to Use Them)"
"Grassroots is best. Start from the bottom-up so people build a sense of ownership of their wiki contributions." read more - "How a Wiki Affected This Class: Romantic Audience Project"
"Caveat: the following are thoughts from just one
>" border="0">teacher, after a fairly successful use of this Wiki in the classroom. I'm sure my >" border="0">students would have several items to add here. But they've escaped...." read more - "Wikis in School Projects"
"Wikis should be great tools for building student-project documentation, right? They should also be great tools within businesses. But they aren't getting used as much as the proponents think they should. " read more - eLearning: Learning in the 21st Century (National Writing Project TL)
- Wikis: "Best Practice" Tools for Collaboration (National Writing Project TL)
- Terry Warren on PBWiki
- Karen Montgomery on PBWiki
- St. Francis Xavier Community School on PBWiki
- Four-Letter Words: How Wiki and Edit Are Making the Internet a Better Learning Tool
- The LTC Wiki: Experiences Integrating a Wiki in Instruction
- Wiki-Based Collaboration and Academic Publishing
- The New Learning Landscape
- Ways to Use Wiki in Education
- Brian Lamb's "Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not"--touted as "a must-read for anyone thinking about how to use a wiki in education"
- "Four Free Wikis Worth Trying out"
"As Wikipedia grew in popularity, becoming the eighth most visited site on the Web, many companies decided to purchase and build wikis internally to help enable better communication, knowledge sharing, collaboration and project management between employees. " read more
- GeekGoodies: A Collection of Technology Tools by Teachers for Teachers
- wikiDic: What's in a Word Fall 2007
- wikiDicII: What's in a Word Spring 2008
- CompWiki Spring 2007
- TATablet: A Space by and for Composition Teaching Associates at Humboldt State University
- PBWorks
- Wikispaces for Educators
- BluWiki
- WikiDot
- WetPaint
- ZohoWiki
- SocialText
- WikiWig
- Moodle / Global Classroom
