Archive for the ‘Wikis’ Category

Wikipedia founder interviewed

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004

Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia project, has responded to readers' questions at Slashdot. It's interesting to get a look at some of the issues faced by the world's largest wiki.

Canonical Wiki list

Saturday, July 3rd, 2004

I continue to consider how wikis can be used with students and have been second guessing my decision to install Mediawiki, the software that runs the Wikipedia. Not that Mediawiki isn't powerful software, it's just that it may be a little too complex. Now that Moodle has a built-in wiki ...

Wikis in the classroom

Monday, May 24th, 2004

I've been meaning to post about this for a while since reading something on Will's blog on the topic. I think wikis would be an interesting way for teachers to get students involved in Web publishing without needing to teach kids any HTML. The best way to figure out what a ...