A lengthy and informative article on wikis in general and on specific uses of them for educational purposes.
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In many respects, the wide-open ethic of wikis contrasts vividly with the traditional approaches of standard groupware and collaborative systems. Access restrictions, rigidly defined workflows, and structures are anathema to most wiki developers. What’s unique about wikis is that users define for themselves how their processes and groups will develop, usually by making things up as they go along.
Wikis and blogs are often confused. A blog is generally a vehicle for individual expression which is organized chronologically. Blogs can be highly and attractively formatted. A wiki is generally a vehicle for group collaborative communication which is organized by topic. Wikis are very plain, bordering on ugly. They use stripped down markup language and require the user to learn some very simple markup basics.Technorati Tags: technology, web2.0, wiki
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