Wikis: Why and How

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The longer conversation: If I want to establish a presence on-line in order to communicate with my students, how do I choose among: ...?

• Courseware/Content management systems- My School CMS, Moodle Edmodo
• Social networking- Facebook, Ning,
• Chatting (text or voice), microblogging- Twitter, Skype, AIM
• Blog- EduBlogs, Blogger, On Sugar, , WordPress
• Website- from scratch, Weebly, Wix, NetVibes MoonFruit, Yola,Google Sites
• E-mail- GMail, Yahoo
• Google Documents- ICT in My Classroom blog on Google Docs>
• Wiki- Wikispaces, PBWorks, Wetpaint, Wikiole, Wikia

Not Today

Today

The shorter conversation: Wikis.

• Introductions to wikis and educational uses of wikis.
• Some examples of Jenkintown teacher wiki use.
• A quick introduction to making and managing a wiki website.

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