VirtualMV/Digital Learning Technologies/Wiki

Introduction
What is a wiki?
 * Wikis in Plain English Excellent explanation of wikis in Lee Lefever's Common Craft series
 * Wiki. (2010, November 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiki
 * My Scoop.it page Wikis in Teaching and Learning http://www.scoop.it/t/wikis-in-teaching-and-learning

Anatomy of a wiki
Try Anatomy of a Wiki ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMUAuB_kjU0 ) or Wikis in classroom

Future of the wiki

Ward Cunningham (wiki founder) demos new wiki that innovates three ways. It shares through federation, composes by refactoring and wraps data with visualization. Uses CoffeeScript, jQuery and JASON. Cunningham (n.d.)

Examples of online wikis

 * WikiEducator ( http://wikieducator.org )
 * WikiVersity ( http://wikiversity.org/ )
 * WikiCommons ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/ )
 * Wikipedia ( http://wikipedia.org )
 * VirtualMV, Michael's extreme wiki ( http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki )

WikiText

 * Quick guide to MediWiki Language