Grant Matters: What is a Wiki?

Wiki is one of my favourite student collaboration tools. The word 'Wiki' comes from the Hawaiian language and means quick or fast. The word Wiki entered the Oxford English Dictionary in early 2007 having been used to describe a particular sort of online editable website for some years prior to this.

In the IT world, a Wiki is a way to make a collaborative website very quickly and extremely easily. You require minimal technical know how to do it and all you need is an internet connection and a web browser. You do not require any special software.

Wikispaces is one of the many places that you can create a Wiki. It is free and very easy to use. Now that you know this, the next time that your child comes home with a shared (or individual) project to do, making it on a Wiki could be one of the suggestions that you make.

If you would like to learn more about Wiki's then here are a few links