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[[Image:64px-Mediawiki logo.png|left|40px]]Wikis are most often used when faculty want their students to create an online, '''collaborative knowledge-base'''. Evergreen uses the same base install of Mediawiki found at [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia.org] but can be customized to meet your needs. </div> | [[Image:64px-Mediawiki logo.png|left|40px]]Wikis are most often used when faculty want their students to create an online, '''collaborative knowledge-base'''. Evergreen uses the same base install of Mediawiki found at [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia.org] but can be customized to meet your needs. </div> | ||
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=== Mediawiki at Evergreen === | === Mediawiki at Evergreen === | ||
Mediawiki sites are available for academic offerings and staff workgroups. Wikis may be requested by contacting Academic Computing. | Mediawiki sites are available for academic offerings and staff workgroups. Wikis may be requested by contacting Academic Computing. | ||
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*[http://cci.mit.edu/research/index.html MIT Center for Collective Intelligence] | *[http://cci.mit.edu/research/index.html MIT Center for Collective Intelligence] | ||
*[http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf 7 things you should know about wikis] - from Educause | *[http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf 7 things you should know about wikis] - from Educause | ||
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Revision as of 11:35, 15 November 2016
Mediawiki at Evergreen
Mediawiki sites are available for academic offerings and staff workgroups. Wikis may be requested by contacting Academic Computing.
Curricular Uses
- Collaborative Writing
- Create a group knowledge base
- Peer reviewed local wiki-space prior to publishing at Wikipedia
- Research Coordination and Collaboration
- Conference and Colloquia Web Site / Coordination
- Allows students to create their own areas of a group site
Advantages
- Quick - content can be edited from any internet connected computer
- Flexible - because content does not reside in directories or files (content is stored in a database) the way we approach communicating or organizing information becomes untethered by perceived information containers.
- Focus is on content versus presentation
- Students can post their own work and get interactive feedback
- Large community of users (Wikipedia) sharing tips on wiki usage and best practices
- Handles most multimedia files types
- Leaves a record of who did what (wiki history)
- Wikis can be configured to have various degrees of privacy
Disadvantages
- Unless structured from the beginning, wikis can quickly become chaotic
- Unless categories are used, students need to create their own table of contents to show links to their work
- In order to respond to peers' essays students would need to use the discussion tab which is not a threaded discussion but a another wiki page.
Wikis at Evergreen
- Index of all wikis
- Invertebrate Zoology and Entomology - Invertebrate Zoology and Entomology Species Accounts. This wiki site used the Wikipedia taxobox templates (a table setting out the Biological classification (taxonomy) for a group of living things) to create species accounts. Each student was responsible for completing a thorough species account; students seeking upper division science credit were required to place their information in Wikipedia.
- Museums Program - The Museums program used a wiki for students to collect and document their research.
Wiki Resources
- Wiki Login Help
- Quick Guide to Wiki Syntax
- Mediawiki documentation Evergreen's own wiki documentation
- Wikipedia
- MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
- 7 things you should know about wikis - from Educause
