What is a wiki?
For this blog post, I looked at this article written by Serhat Kurt on www.educationaltechnology.net . What are Wikis? And should you use them? A Wiki can be defined as ‘‘a system that allows one or more people to build up a corpus of knowledge in a set of interlinked web pages, using a process of creating and editing pages” (p.5) (6). Simply put, a Wiki can be defined as a web based tool on which users collaboratively add/delete/modify content directly from the web browser. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia. Adopting technology in education can be very challenging. Research studies document many barriers (lack of resources, lack of education etc). Wikis have become an increasingly popular form of technology use in classrooms. Educators and teachers are using Wikis as effective teaching and learning tools to enhance the learning process. Collaboration is an important part of teaching and learning. And Wikis can facilitate collaboration. Wikis can be u
