Collaborative Spaces: “What’s a Wiki?”

Welcome to Investigating Collaborative Spaces:
“What’s a Wiki?”

One of the more enhanced tools for social networking is called a Wiki.

Main Entry: wiki
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a collaborative Web site set up to allow user editing and adding of content
Etymology: 1995;
Usage: sometimes cap.

Faculty Reference Link:
Professor Stewart Mader recently released wiki-based book, Using Wiki in Education, which is a compilation of case studies showing how teachers are using the wiki in a variety of environments. 10/26/2006

Professor Stewart Mader, senior instructional technologist in life sciences at Brown University, gave a good general talk about wikis followed by a few examples in education.