Listly by Nathan Venable
Wikis are not new but they are time tested. When you interact in a way that your audience prefers then you quickly become the teacher your audience prefers. Outsource your tasks to the world.
Amass brainpower from all over the world into one location. Keep documents organized and easily shareable. Collaborate, plan a trip or work on a project. Link important and related information. Take control over your own education or your own advancement. Encourage community and team building. Get your Wiki on!
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This Word Art shows some reasons to use a Wiki
Let's take a look at 10 reasons how a wiki can connect teams within companies, helping them get more done, together. Learn more: http://www.atlassian.com/why...
A short explanation of wikis and how they can be used to coordinate a group. This video introduces a wiki website as a resource for helping a group of camper...
What are Wikis? And should you use them in the educational setting?
Web sites known as wikis have emerged as a cheap and easy way to get students online. Explore activity ideas across subjects. Have students practice their grammar skills by entering information that is intentionally not grammatically correct. Ask the student to go in and correct those errors.
Here is a Wiki from the 2017-1018 school year. "We have utilized our classroom wiki across the curriculum, with an emphasis on Language Arts and science. My students' greatest gain has been in connecting with leading authors and scientists around the world. It has changed their lives in meaningful and lifelong ways." -June Shanahan
Organize all your data from research on one page with hyperlinks to different topics
Why Teachers Should Use Wiki in the Classroom? Wiki is an online application that allows users to contribute to or edit its content. This allows students to take more control over their own education. Students can collaboratively work on projects. Work can be immediately critiqued by their peers or by their teacher. A student can draft a paper and then invite comments and edits from the other students.
Wikis are Web 2.0 software which allow people to collaborate and share information online. Web 2.0 software works through a web browser, turning control and ownership of web content over to the user, offering open participation and social networking.
In a recent journal article, Min Kyu Kim describes how a wiki helped to maintain and improve student engagement in a college level writing course.
Wiki sustained engagement
Wiki increased engagement
Wiki increased motivation
Did you know Wikipedia is the 7th most visited page on the internet? Created a Wikipedia page or create a Wiki using other internet software. It also will accelerate your own employees training and success by using a repository of data in one location containing hyperlinks to other related information. Here are some of the best Wiki Host Websites:
DokuWik
https://www.zoho.com/wiki/
SiteGround
A2Hosting
XWiki
Nuclino
Confluence
Notion for Wikis
Papyrs
AllAnswered
Kipwise
Slab
Archbee
SlimWiki
Unlike other document programs which can quickly become very messy, Wikis can neatly link important information between multiple pages which can then be accessed by anyone or for only specific people. Check out the WikiTravel page as an example.
Edit the instructions for online games such as MineCraft or start a new gaming Wiki project and share it to the world.
When managed correctly, a Wiki can just make work life better. The information employees need is in one location so productivity is increased. Employees can easily contribute to the growth of the firm by sharing their knowledge and expertise. New employees are able to catch up to speed with the company and with their own job by accessing the information from one location rather than finding a manager who can answer their questions. Prof Profs knowledge base gives 25 reasons why Wikis are just good for business.
Teams from all over the world are able to work together to achieve a common goal. Provide students an opportunity to work together. Whatever the class can do verbally they can do through a Wiki.
With a Wiki, all the HTML coding is done in the background
Wikis give everyone on the team a central place where all your information can easily be found and accessed.
If you are looking for social media idea for a specific lesson, start a Wiki and ask for help.A girls view of sustainability and social media
Share documents with anyone in the world or just with those who you choose to share it with.
Assess students writing skills and participation efforts. Assess their ability to analyze a problem and provide ideas for resolutions.
In his blog on January 7th, 2020, Author Chris Rall does a good job at describing why Wikis can be harmful to customers.
Unreliable Information and No Oversight
Rebuttal: The administrator can control who is allowed to edit the Wiki but should be careful not to exercise too much control and defeat the purpose of a Wiki being collaborative.
Information Clutter
Rebuttal: The administrator can allow only those who they know are responsible to edit or make comments. The content can be managed by a gatekeeper.
Sharing Content is Impossible
Rebuttal: Sharing content is simple with a Wiki. Just place them in a shared folder like google docs.
Multimedia Content Lacking
Rebuttal: Some Wikis contain a lot of information but that may be because their purpose is to disseminate large amounts of information. Even with the free Wikis like PBWorks a user has the option of embedding videos or photos.
No Analytics
Rebuttal: Analytics are available on Wikis. According to Harvard University, it is just a matter of adding a little bit of code to a Google Wiki. You can track:
Number of page visits
Site visitors came from (referrers)
Length of visitor stay
Visitors’ geographical location
Wikis provide a date and time stamp so you can know if students met the deadline for the assignment