Hello! Today I'll talk about WIKI ant its use in education.

Wiki is a web technology used for collaborative publishing on the web. Wiki is a type of server software that allows you to work with data on a remote server on the Web. Users interact with the software through a web interface that lets them read, edit and publish content.

Wiki is used for collaborative publishing. A group of co-authors can freely add and change the content of the wiki website: rewrite texts, add new texts and images, add and link pages and more.

Genres of wiki sites that can be useful in learning:

Encyclopedias serving as information resource, this site attracts hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world to contribute, and hundreds of millions to read. It is like a book, where you can read about anything you want.

Educational wikis are mainly collective research projects. Focused around problem-oriented issues, these projects are typically developed by students and moderated by their teachers (often more than one teacher per project, especially in cross-disciplinary projects). In a short time span, these projects accumulate knowledge, expertise and research results of student groups. A wiki can also be used in education as a classroom resource center and a collaboration environment.

What can students do with wikis?

In a wiki site, students are free to create pages about themselves. A teacher can ask students to create such pages as an entry-level task to get them familiar with wiki and its tools. A student's page can contain a photo, bio information, hobbies, a list of interests, links to favorite websites. A task to create such a page gives the student an incentive how to use formatting, publishing and multimedia capabilities of a wiki platform, thereby preparing the student for more complex tasks.

What wiki-sites can you use?

• Wikispaces proves to be one of the best, highly reliable, easy to use and intuitive free wiki platforms to use as your wiki platform. Recent classroom-oriented updates makes Wikispates your top choice for classroom wiki use.

• Wikia offers a more modern look, has more features and a vast fan base for attracting commercially active communities. Less suitable for educational use for incessant advertising on every page of your wiki.

• ZohoWiki provides state-of-the-art interface and functions for a modern corporate-inclined wiki. Best for tech-savvy classrooms.

• Wiki Site is a native WikiMedia-based free wiki hosting with limited features and resources.

• WikiDot offers free plans for wiki sites with advertising. Standard wiki functionality.



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