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- What – is a type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and
change some available content, sometimes without the need for
registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an
effective tool for collaborative authoring. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine)
that facilitates the operation of such a website, or to certain
specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (an original
wiki), WikiWikiWeb, and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia (from Wikipedia)
- Why
– Because many heads are better than one, because collaborative writing
is more exciting and rewarding, because you can encourage participation
by group members, because you can have a historical record and
electronic paper trail of the work you’ve done, and because you can
easily share your results.
- Who – Students for group projects, committees on campus, campus communications, lecture notes or presentations, or anything else that you want to put on a Web page.
For your later reading pleasure, here's a bunch of links: Using wiki in education
K-12: Web Tools 4 You 2 Use (wiki)
Will Richardson has a wiki about wikis!! WikiBooks free textbooks and manuals Wikisource the free library 9th graders have a wiki about mashups. They know what a mashup is, do you?David Warlick is an excellent edublogger. He uses a wiki for his presentation materials and handouts.
I love the debate sites: Debatepedia for one example which uses a wiki engine.
Wikibook on Web 2.0 & Emerging Technologies
Branded wiki at University of Minnesota.
- Where – Lots of free sites or host your own on campus:
 PBwiki is ad-free for educators.
 WetPaint wikis are ad-free for educators.
 MediaWiki is open source and you can host your own site if desired.
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