Wikis

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Wikis are websites that allow multiple people to edit pages. Wikipedia is the most famous one.

For classes, often it is more appropriate to create your own wiki space (such as this one). Moodle also has support for wikis, as does the new Blackboard.

Contributing to this wiki
You can click the 'Join' link at the top of this page to join this class wiki and try editing any page. Try adding a link to a page (like another educational wiki to the list below), or clicking the Discussion tab at the top of a page to post a comment or ask a question.

Check out the Recent Changes" link on the left sidebar, too, to see what's been happening on the wiki.

You can always revert an edit also by clicking the History tab above a page (this is why Wikipedia works - they just quickly revert any vandalism or bad edits).

Free wiki hosting sites

 * Wikispaces
 * PBWorks
 * Wetpaint
 * Wikia
 * Here is a comparison between the top 3:[| http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/PBwiki+Wetpaint+Wikispaces]

More about wikis
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Using wikis in the classroom

 * An article about a biology instructor at USU who had his students help create wiki-based 'textbooks', along with links to a couple of the wikis created:
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 * Another example of a wiki 'book' created by students in edtech:
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 * http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Articles+and+Resources
 * http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/Wikis+in+Education
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 * Catalogs of ways to use wikis in a classroom:
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 * Using wikispaces
 * http://www.wikispaces.com/wikitext+variables
 * http://sealwyf.wikispaces.com/Sandbox008

Examples of educational wikis

 * http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com
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 * Probably the best educational technology wiki resource - covering research, theory, and technologies in educational technology
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 * http://newmedialiteracies.wikispaces.com/
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 * http://qualipedia.wikispaces.com/
 * http://qualmethods.wikispaces.com/
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 * http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/
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 * [|http://psychology.wikia.com]
 * http://web20-21stcentury-tools.wikispaces.com/
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 * https://wikiclassrooms.wikispaces.com
 * http://dazzle.wikispaces.com/
 * http://collegeenglish.wikispaces.com/

Using a wiki for your own course
When you are planning a course, it's a good idea to search for related courses for comparison. You can try to make sure you are teaching your course the best possible way, and covering all the important topics.

Often you can google the subject area + "syllabus" to find other examples.

Here are some other courses similar to this one. Notice most of them are using wikis for their course homepages (also most of the instructors have twitter accounts):
 * http://ci438-2010.wikispaces.com/
 * http://ci579-10isu.wikispaces.com/Course+Information
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 * [|http://beyondwebct.wordpress.com/spring-2010-course-materials/course-syllabus-spring-][|2010/]
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 * http://edts523ransom.wikispaces.com/ and http://edts523naz.wikispaces.com/
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