Wikis for School-Wide Collaboration

(Creating a Wiki for Staff Collaboration)

A wiki is a web page or collection of web pages that allow anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify its content. Watch this short video for an easy to understand explanation.

Probably the most famous wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is known as the world's largest encyclopedia.  As of this writing, Wikipedia has over 3.5 million articles in English.  It was created with the objective of "democratizing" knowledge by allowing anyone to edit its pages.

Thankfully you can create a wiki on a much smaller scale than wikipedia.  You don't need any technical expertise, either.  You can create your own wiki web site very quickly using free services like Wikispaces.com and PBworks.com.

How quickly and easily?  Here is a video with a step-by-step in less than 60 seconds!

 
So, how can you utilize wikis with your school staff to improve school-wide collaboration?  Visit the Google Doc wiki below to view a few ideas and add your own ideas, benefits, and concerns.

http://goo.gl/hU3YO