What is a wiki?
A wiki is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, typically without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The term wiki also can refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a Web site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (the original wiki) WikiWikiWeb and on-line encyclopedias such as Wikipedia.
Wiki is a website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively.
Wiki is a collection of websites of hypertext, each of them can be visited and edited by anyone. “Wiki wiki” means "rapidly" in the Hawaiian language.
Wiki is online collaboration model and tool that allows any user to edit some content of webpages through a simple browser.
Key characteristics of Wiki:
A wiki enables documents to be written very collaboratively in a simple markup language using a web browser. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page"(Wiki page is a web page that is part of a WIKI system. Such page has the characteristic of being editable by any browser and its content can therefore be changed by the web users.) while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki". In effect, a wiki is actually a very simple, easy-to-use user-maintained database for searching or even creating information.
A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. Generally, there is no review before modifications are accepted. Most wikis are open to the general public without the need to register any user account.
To learn more about Wiki, please follow the link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIKI
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I have read the two hign tech Wiki and Podcasting and got to know some idea of what they are, but to be frank, I am still at loss how to apply them in our real teaching.
Nowadays, we are facing so many choices and temptations, most of the time we get lost when we have learn to know what they are.
I know as teachers, we need to keep up with the trend and get to know the advanced techs. But the question is we are educating students or we are teaching technology.
What should teachers cope with the challenge and do better in their real teaching career?
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