{"id":249,"date":"2008-04-23T07:05:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T13:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/249"},"modified":"2008-04-19T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T21:24:25","slug":"whats-a-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/249","title":{"rendered":"What’s a wiki?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a very short video explaining wikis, from the clever folks at Common Craft<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

Common Craft has many short videos explaining things like RSS, social bookmarking, twitter, blogs, sharing photos online, and more. You can also get them through YouTube<\/a> (a search for leelefever gets a list).<\/p>\n

Now, why do you want to know about wikis<\/strong>? You may want to use one! They are tools for collaborative group work that can cut down on email among group members. Also, if a group at work has a shared drive where the documents and folders are out of control and not searchable, putting them into a wiki can keep them in a central place while making them searchable too. Everyone in the group can both view and edit the pages.<\/p>\n

There are articles<\/a> about the usefulness of wikis for education and training online. The University Library also has a few books, such as Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, LB1044.87 .R53 2006) and Wiki: Web collaboration<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, \t TK5105.888 .E2413 2006).<\/p>\n

The most well-known wiki example is of course Wikipedia<\/a>. But UWW has some wikis too. Go to https:\/\/wiki.uww.edu\/<\/a> to see the list (click “Directory” on the left). There are several set up for specific classes, and for faculty <\/strong>there is an Academic Misconduct Wiki<\/strong> (under the “Other” part of the wiki directory) where you can talk to each other about concerns and share suggestions. It’s protected so that only UWW faculty can use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a very short video explaining wikis, from the clever folks at Common Craft: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY[\/youtube] Common Craft has many short videos explaining things like RSS, social bookmarking, twitter, blogs, sharing photos online, and more. You can also get them through … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[779,141,178,781,780,778,267,256,658,257,562],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-academic-misconduct","tag-articles","tag-books","tag-how-tos","tag-plagiarism","tag-productivity-tools","tag-videos","tag-web-20","tag-web-sites","tag-wikipedia","tag-wikis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}