Multiple speakers explain what a wiki is: an online space where groups collaborate to build shared knowledge without needing HTML or FTP skills. They highlight rapid editing, linking between pages, and file sharing as core features that make wikis work as portals for group learning.
Wiki is an online collaboration tool that students and teachers can use to put up ideas. Sort of like having an online conversation. It's ongoing and maybe containing a body of knowledge that a group of people are going to share that is changing over time.
It's just a place where many people can come together on the web and contribute to building ideas together as a group. So instead of just thinking about a website or a blog, which is maybe one person putting out their ideas for everyone to see, it's a place where everyone, where a group of people can generate ideas together.
I love how they say wiki means quick. And the whole idea is that I can take an idea and consolidate it in one place. I can put everything in one place. I can get instant access through links, I can post pieces, PDF files. It's just a portal for learning.
A written page is really a one dimensional document, whereas a wiki or a website becomes three dimensional. Where there's some depth. You can use a hyperlink to create depth for that reader that may not have the knowledge of what that particular vocabulary word is.
The wiki is different from the website because I don't think any of us really know HTML. I think one person knows HTML and I think I know the little this sign, slash, center this.
We didn't have to be technically proficient in content management systems or Dreamweaver or whatnot. You go to a page, you hit edit, you type in some text, save and you're done.
I can be on the web, share my ideas. I don't have to worry about design, I don't have to worry about FTP because it's all done.
