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Thoughts on Wikispaces

This week was my first time using Wikispaces.  I love this Wiki tool!  My previous Wiki experience involved a tool called PBworks (formerly PBWiki).  PBworks is fine, but the functionality is definitely not as good as Wikispaces.  PBworks is complicated and two users cannot work on content at one time within the same Wiki.

Wikis in Teaching and Learning

Wikis are excellent platforms for online, collaborative projects.  They can also be used to support the creation of classroom community.   Here is a fun video by Common Craft (FYI the Common Craft YouTube channel is amazing!) showing how to collaborate using a Wiki.  

Duffy and Bruns (2006) suggest additional uses for Wikis:

• Documenting resources for a research project
• Creating a collaborative annotated bibliography for assigned classroom readings
• Concept mapping

Duffy, P., & Bruns, A. (2006). The use of blogs, wikis and RSS in education: A conversation of possibilities. In the proceedings of the Online Learning and Teaching Conference 2006, p. 31-38, Brisbane.  Retrieved from  https://eprints.qut.edu.au/5398/1/5398.pdf