Getting to know the CNV Wiki
The CNV Wiki is based on Apple's OS X Wiki server: "Mac OS X Server makes it easy for groups to collaborate and communicate through their own wiki-powered intranet website complete with group calendar, blog, and mailing list. Users can create and edit wiki pages, tag and cross-reference material, upload files and images, add comments, and search content with point-and-click ease." Read more
Students
Wikis provide a significant amount of collaborative opportunities for students to get involved in a large amount of projects. Combining freely accessible information, rapid feedback, simplified HTML, and access by multiple editors, wikis are being rapidly adopted as an innovative way of constructing knowledge.
In these links, students have open editing and have the opportunity to interact with other student in the wiki world. With the opportunity of online collaboration even to receive and offer positive and at times negatives feedback, it may ultimatly be a lot more productive to students. As a constructivist learning activity, wikis allow students to "own" their learning experience in an online collaborative environment.
In the following links, students can find tools to help them create they own websites. Assited them with school topics, recreational websites, forums, etc.
Top 10 Wiki-Websites students should NOT miss
- http://www.wetpaint.com/category/Education--Wikis-In-The-Classroom
- http://www.wikipedia.org
- http://www.wikidot.com
- http://www.sniki.org
- http://arch1k.wikidot.com
- http://horrormovies.wikidot.com
- http://students.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
- http://www.projectforum.com/pf/wiki.html
- https://globalhub.org/groups/coaching/wiki
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/International_Baccalaureate
