What's+a+Wiki

A wiki can be thought of as a combination of a Web site and a Word document. At its simplest, it can be read just like any other web site, with no access privileges necessary, but its real power lies in the fact that groups can collaboratively work on the content of the site using only a standard web browser.
 * What is a wiki?**

// Connections // // Engagement // // Creativity // // Interpersonal // // Writing // // Metacognition //
 * Why use a wiki?**
 * Build greater connections between new and old knowledge by allowing student-created structure for the information and ideas.
 * Build on the best of Bloom: Students use synthesis and evaluation constantly and consistently when they work on a wiki.
 * Increase engagement of all students.
 * In lieu of being passive “consumers” of their peers’ presentations (where they doze, doze and ignore), wiki makers respond, respond, change, and improve.
 * Culminating projects no longer have to end!!
 * Build creativity skills, especially elaboration and fluency. Build creative flexibility in accepting others’ edits
 * Encourage “hitch-hiking” on ideas (a type of creative elaboration and analytical thinking: If X is true, then what about Y?).
 * Introduce and reinforce the idea that a creative piece as never “done.”
 * Develop interpersonal and communication skills, especially consensus-building and compromise, in an environment where the product motivates interpersonal problem-solving
 * Develop true teamwork skills
 * Improve the most challenging phase of writing process: revision, revision, revision!
 * Increase flexibility to consider other ways of saying things
 * Build an awareness of a wider, more authentic audience
 * Stimulate discussion and metacognition (where developmentally ready
 * Help students articulate issues about ownership, finding, different conceptualizations of the same content. These can be sophisticated challenges, even for the best students

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 * How does a wiki work?**

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