Wiki is a Hawaiian word that means “fast” or“quick.”A wiki web site is an easy-to-create and easy-to-use web site that allows many people to add,modify, or edit content. The largest wiki in the world is Wikipedia. In this hands-on session you’ll work with an existing classroom wiki to experience how wiki technology helps support and teach any class. You’ll join the wiki as a student, create and edit wiki pages, share files, and post and respond to wiki discussion groups.

1. Wikis – Quick Fun, Fast Support
by Lisa Friedrichsen
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park KS
lisalfri@jccc.edu
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2. What is a wiki?
• Wiki is a Hawaiian word for “quick” or
"fast"
• A wiki is a collaborative web site which
allows users to add, modify, or delete
content to get fast, quick answers
• Wikipedia on Wiki

3. Wikis are so easy…
…that I taught my dogs how to wiki!

4. …yes, I taught. I didn’t say they learned!

5. What is a wiki good for?
• Storing shared knowledge
• Community note taking
• Wikis in plain English

6. What are some good wiki applications?
• Sharing and saving class notes, materials
(great flipped classroom tool)
• Project or event planning
• User groups, advisory boards, committees
• Others?

7. Who has worked with a wiki before?
• www.wikispaces.com
• Others?

8. Today’s Session
• Work with a wikispaces wiki to…
– Edit Pages
– Share files
– Post and respond to discussion groups
– Share and preserve conference knowledge

9. Today we will use….
• www.wikispaces.com
• You must set up an account
• Two choices to participate…
– Find it yourself: CourseConference
– Be invited by sending an email to
lisalfri@jccc.edu

10. www.wikispaces.com
Home page has great information

11. Wikispaces activities…
• Invite People
• Navigate among the pages
• Edit, Format, Save content
• Create a hyperlink
• Insert a File
• Insert a Widget
• Start a Discussion
• Add a Page

12. Wikispaces activities…
• Explore recent changes
• Change member status
• Change wiki colors, layout, logo
• Edit the style sheet
• Monitor the wiki
• Switch between wikis
• Update your account (picture, info)

13. Thank you!
Lisa Friedrichsen
lisalfri@jccc.edu