A wiki is a web page that anyone can edit. The most famous example of a wiki is Wikipedia - the online community-developed encyclopedia. This workshop web site was created on Wikispaces. There is a lot of controversy surrounding Wikipedia and even the use of wikis, but they are the ultimate Web 2.0 tool.

Wiki Attributes

• Any user (can be approved user) can edit content
• History of changes, ability to revert to previous versions
• Collaborative tool

Links

• Wikipedia
• The Wikicentric Classroom - Using a wiki as a classroom web page.

  Example: Vicki Davis, Classroom Wiki

  Example: AP World History Wiki

• Project Wiki and the EduWiki Design Patterns

  Example: Holocaust Wiki Project, AP World History Review Project

• Easy Publication Tool

  Example: WWI Poetry Visualization Project

• Wikis as a planning document

  Example: West Hills AP World Planning (password protected)

Wiki Engines

• PBwiki 
• Wikispaces