Wikis

=Wikis= A wiki is a type of web site that allows you to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. The term wiki also can refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a Web site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (the original wiki) WikiWikiWeb and on-line encyclopaedias such as Wikipedia ([|Wikipedia] accessed 17/12/06). To find out more watch this go to YouTube and watch the CommonCraft video on Wikis

Links to some wiki sites
Teaching and Learning with Digital Media Steph's Wiki Connected Learning Community Course on the digital age

Setting up your own wiki
To set up your own wiki then follow these steps Once you have completed this then complete the following tasks:
 * 1) Go to wiki help and watch the movies on how to set up your wiki
 * 2) There is also lots of other great tips on wiki help.
 * 1) Personalise your wiki space
 * 2) Set up your pages and develop you content
 * 3) Have a look at how to embed [|media]into your wiki
 * 4) Back up your pages
 * 5) Create a discussion topic
 * 6) Don't forget to back up your wikispace. Go to Manage Space, //Export Space as HTML.// You should do this on a regular basis,


 * Please note:** There is a limit to the amount of content you can upload, but you can load material onto a server and link from there ie if you wanted to upload a movie, flash activity, learning object etc.

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