WIKIS

 Michele: this looks fine; good resources and suitable activities. I've updated the PBWiki page - HJ

A Continuum of Usage for Wikis

Ray Sims has suggested that it's useful to realize that there are a variety of ways that wikis can be deployed. You can have:

• A private wiki used by one person for their own personal knowledge management
• A behind the firewall wiki in a company where the wiki (or namespace within the wiki) is only available to some employees, but not other employees due to confidentiality and/or legal or other considerations
• A behind the firewall wiki in a company where the wiki is available to all employees
• A company wiki also open to business partners, but not the public at large
• A public wiki editable only by a few — perhaps even just one person, as in a wiki used as part of a blog infrastructure for static page creation, but which is not open to edits by other than the author
• A public wiki editable by anyone registered
• A public wiki editable by anyone, without registration requirement

Wikis in Plain English

Wiki It Slideshare presentation

5 Uses for a Wiki at Work

Examples of Educational Wikis

Horizon Project--Vicki Davis's "Flat Classroom Project"--outstanding example of how to use a wiki for learning

Wiki Wake Up Call and Use Cases--some useful distinctions between types of wikis and some options for using them.

Wiki Pedagogy--discussion of how wikis challenge and shape traditional notions of pedagogy

Wiki Matrix--side-by-side comparisons of various wikis

Wikis as Personal Space

Guide to Using Free Tools to Create an Online Portfolio--includes info on creating a portfolio using a wiki

Activities

Spectators--Read through the articles and forums. Check out the PB Wiki set up for the Work Literacy course

Joiners/Collectors--Read articles and forums and comment.  Make an edit to the PBWiki set up for the course. Add a link to a resource, embed a video, etc.

Creators--Review articles with different examples of how you can use a wiki and then set up a wiki for your own project.

FORUMS

Wiki Tools--list of potential tools to use and set up for discussion of pros/cons, technical questions, etc.

Wikis for Personal Learning and Productivity--discuss how to use wikis to manage projects, set up personal portfolio, etc.

Wikis for Formal Learning--Using wikis to support formal learning/classroom settings.