Wikis: Engaging Group Editing and Collaboration
Wiki defined: A collection of web pages that can be edited by a group.
~ Source Site: Common Craft Show
PBworks is another wiki site for use by educators, as well as business clients. PBworks allows for sharing of files, access controls for pages and files, history for each page, and the ability to be notified of changes by email. PBwork's blog, The official blog of PBworks, keeps users notified of changes and upgrades to the product. Wetpaint is a wiki website tool that mixes features from wikis, blogs, forums and social networks and allows for the creation of an online user-generated community. Wetpaint offers ad free sites for educators, and has templates for classroom use. They also have a whole community for wikis in the classroom, including examples and discussions. Keep up on changes to Wetpaint by reading the Wetpaint Blog.
Weebly is a free online service for creating free websites and blogs, with dozens of professional designs. Users can use the drag and drop interface, with little technical skills. Weebly also offers free domain hosting. Read the Weebly Blog to keep current on changes and updates to the site. Users under the age of 13 are not permitted to use the site according to the terms of service.
NEW! Weebly now offers a new product for educators and their students, allowing folks who may not familiar with the basics of HTML or CSS to create their own multimedia online blogs. Weebly has removed out all of the ads and features that wouldn’t be applicable to students. Weebly is letting teachers manage the accounts of all of their students and teachers can elect to keep their entire class’s accounts set to Private, which means only the student and their teacher can see it. Sign up here! Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project. The name "Wikipedia" is a combination of the words wiki (a type of collaborative Web site) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to related pages with additional information. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world; anyone can edit it. Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites, attracting 684 million visitors yearly by 2008. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles. Visitors do not need specialized qualifications to contribute, since their primary role is to write articles that cover existing knowledge. This means that people of all ages and cultural and social backgrounds can write Wikipedia articles. For more see: Wikipedia:Statistics. There are arguments over the use of Wikipedia by students for research. Some folks feel that since anyone can make edits, the site is not reliable. Others argue that Wikipedia is much more current than traditional encyclopedias and actually more accurate because of the community of editors. There's even a Why Use Wikipedia page that goes over this information. Decide for yourself! Wikipedia offers a page on how to generate citations for Wikipedia articles also.
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Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. With Google Sites, people can quickly gather a variety of information in one place -- including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text -- and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, their entire organization, or the world. There is no limit to how many pages you can create in Sites. You can store up to 100MB in a Google Site.
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