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What is a wiki?

- website/tool that allows collaboration and interaction

- serves as a „content management system“

- developes a „knowledge base“

- creates „collective intelligence“

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What does this mean?

- any website user can edit / add / delete / link content

- any user can create new pages within the wiki

- adminstrators can follow the „history“ of the wiki

- a wiki is characteristic for „Web 2.0“

- wikis do not only manage text, but any kind of media

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Wiki Software: Free and open source

dokuwiki TWiki Jamwiki MediaWiki

mojomojo WikkaWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin

Complete list of wiki software: wikipedia

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Wiki Software: Available and tested at schools

open source

free users webspace

limited features 100

unlimited unlimited

unlimited1) unlimited

1) Only teachers inside Europe can register

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Wikis: My Personal Best Practice

- Regional food (3 schools in Austria, 1 in Northern Ireland)

- Young literature – an open book review platform (3 schools in Austria)

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Wikis: Multimedia Contents (examples)

-Voicethreads

- Vokis