Wikis

**Wikis**
So what's a wiki? Wikipedia defines a wiki as: A **wiki** is a page or collection of [|Web pages] designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified [|markup language]. Wikis are often used to create [|collaborative] [|websites] and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia [|Wikipedia] is one of the best-known wikis.[|[] Wikis are used in business to provide [|intranets] and [|Knowledge Management] systems. "Wiki" ( [|/wiːkiː/] ) is a [|Hawaiian] word for "fast". "Wiki Wiki" is a [|reduplication]. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is," but this is a [|backronym]


 * I think of a wiki as an informal online tool for collaboration.

For an example, check out the Summit Sustainability Wiki at http://summitgreen.wikispaces.com/ and list your project on the Sustainability Goals page.

It allows almost anyone to build a simple website. This Commoncraft video on wikis helps explain them (I'm pretty sure most of you have already seen this at least once).**

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 * [|Here's a wiki on using web 2.0 tools.]

[|A Wiki Walk Through from Teachers First]

[|A Tour of Wikispaces]

Mrs. Abernethy's Fifth Grade Wiki**