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Wiki Resources:
- Brief history of the first wiki (Wikipedia)
- Wiki’s in plain english video (Common Craft)
- WikiSpaces website, embeddable widgets, help specifically for educators, wikispaces for educators, 5 quick video tours/tutorials
- Everything Wiki (wikis in education, corporate wikis, articles, examples, and lots more!)
- 50 Ways to Use Wiki’s for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom (smartteaching.org)
- Wikis in University Teaching and Learning, 55m video (Richard Buckland, computer science and engineering, UNSW)
- Wikispaces Projects: A better way to work in classroom groups (wikispaces blog)
- Wikis in Higher Ed (uses and examples)
Some Popular Wikis and Features
| Free | Not-Free | Cloud-hosted | Self- hosted |
Description (from website) | |
| Docuwiki | * | * | DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. | ||
| Mediawiki | * | * | MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non | ||
| PBWorksformerly PBwiki | *non- commercial usead-free for educators |
* | * | Lets your team capture knowledge, share files, and manage projects. It tracks every change, and automatically notifies you and your team to keep everyone in the loop. | |
| PikiWiki | * | * | Instantly create and share webpages. Have friends add content [including text, audio and video]. All with drag and drop freedom and ease. No software to install. | ||
| Twiki | * | * | * | A flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application platform…Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins. | |
| Wikidot | * limited |
* | * | Build a website. Publish content, share your documents, collaborate with friends or coworkers, create a place for your community! |
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| WikiSpaces | * limited ad-free for educators |
* | * | Hosted wiki for individuals and small groups free for basic features; fee for advanced features. Free plans with more features and ad-free available for K-12 and Higher Education. Fee-based exclusive environments for large organizations. Includes “projects” for educators. | |
| Wikkawiki | * | * | A flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight, wiki engine written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. Forked from WakkaWiki. Designed for speed, extensibility, and security. | ||
| Zoho Wiki | * <4 users |
* | * | * | Create collaborative portals for effective knowledge management; a searchable, centralized information repository for easy organizational access. Create private or public workspaces. |
| Zwiki | * | * | Powerful, innovative, user-friendly wiki engine based on the Zope 2 platform. |
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