Wiki

Wiki's are collaborative websites where you can work together to gather information. You can easily edit a wiki, and you can easily change a wiki page back if someone makes a mistake.

There are many wiki's on the internet. | Wikipedia is the most famous, but many other wiki's exist. If you are a fan of Star Wars, there is | Wookiepedia. If you are a fan of Star Trek, there is | Memory Alpha and | Memory Beta.

Exercise
''Easy: Visit Wikipedia and find an article on an educational topic, like  Classroom Management. Look at the top of the page and at the side of the page.''
 * 1) Open the discussion section.
 * 2) Click on 'Edit this page' and look at how the page is put together.
 * 3) Click on 'History' and look at the way others wrote on this topic.
 * 4) Click on 'Discussion' to see what people are talking about

''Advanced: Do the Easy exercise. Go to TiddlyWiki and download this simple wiki. Try out some of the markup you saw in the 'Edit this Page' section on Wikipedia.''

Write!
Easy
 * Write about one section of the Wikipedia article.
 * What were people talking about in the discussion section?
 * What changes had been made to the page recently?
 * Write about how links, bold and italics are made in a wiki from looking at the 'Edit This Page' section.

Advanced


 * Take a look at the Help Table. Write about how Wiki markup is different from HTML.

Links

 * Wikipedia
 * PBWorks
 * Wikia
 * WetPaint
 * Google Sites
 * | MediaWiki
 * DokuWiki