Wiki

1. What is a Wiki?

Wiki activity (shared product) allows building content pages on the Internet without knowledge of HTML and with the participation of several participants. Each of the course participants can view existing wiki content, edit it and add their own content to each existing page. There is also the option of creating a personal wiki - a personal "subsite" that can be edited by a single user.

The wiki maintains a version history, allowing for viewing of edits by each course participant.

Examples of wiki uses:

• Personal/group journal summarizing learning activities.
• Lab reports submitted in groups.
• Collaborative research paper - each student chooses a part of the topic and updates the collaborative wiki.
• Building a glossary
• Joint summary of course lectures
• Collaborative analysis of a scientific article - guided reading
• Analysis of a collection of academic articles
• Collaborative activity towards a final exam