Education theories promote engaging student where they are at in the online environment. The proliferation of what is referred to as Web 2.0 tools provide such an opportunity for academic libraries. To engage students where they are in the online environment. This introduction provides an overview of wikis as collaborative writing tools. Authors use creative commons licensing in an online environment
2. What is a wiki? • Hawaiian word for quick Quick website Used to create and develop collaborative or community sites around a common interest “It ‘s the simplest online database that could possibly work” Ward Cunningham, developed first wiki software in 1994 Wiki’s in plain English TUTLIS Directorate
3. How does it work? It has a read state and write state In the read state- anyone can access (public or private) In the write state – writers, editors, moderate, contributors Page level protection against editing Collection of hyperlinked pages Distinguishing characteristic - compare previous versions of a page able to revert back and track who edited the page It used simple markup language, but now as simple as editing and saving a page Search engine for wiki’s e.gwww.powerset.com TUTLIS Directorate
4. What is it used for? Plan conferences, workshops Webliography/Bibliographies Book reviews Notes of meetings Discuss issues, comment on items in news e.g. new virus List of “Who’s who?” Knowledge management Wiki Wish list -Smith and Segoe, 2008. team work and collaborative papers (avoiding emailed MS Word file around) Note-taking and social discussions at events A great e-learning tool, class assignment, discussion -Guy, 2008, http://www.slideshare.net/MariekeGuy/blogs-wikis-and-more-web-20-demystified-for-learning-and-teaching-professionals TUTLIS Directorate
36. This presentation, E-LIS : http://eprints.rclis.org/18584 Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/FatimaDarries/wikis-for-collaborative-authoring Wiki : http://tut23librarythings.wetpaint.com/page/Wikis-+a+presentation+-+Fatima+Darries Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License TUT LIS Directorate
Editor's Notes
Of all the Web 2.0 tools it comes closest to the traditional websites. Only it is much quicker to create and it is collaborative.
This is a reader state of the wikiURL is decided on when the wiki is createdThe pages are hypelinked and pages can be seen on front pagePbworks allows pages into filesFor the managers also used it for induction, orientation and mentoring of new staff, as well as faculty librarian in Design – links to publishers by subject in the faculty. This may be used at TUT because of how collection is done here.In the right hand frame – you can see asked to be invited as a viewer/reader of the wikiGive you a log in linkAnd you can see the recent update and activityPbWorks can also send email alerts on changes and updates.
We have used wetpaint for this workshopTo collaborate on the workhopTo make available resourcesTo make available these presentations
We have used wetpaint for this workshopTo collaborate on the workhopTo make available resourcesTo make available these presentations
We have used wetpaint for this workshopTo collaborate on the workhopTo make available resourcesTo make available these presentations
We have used wetpaint for this workshopTo collaborate on the workhopTo make available resourcesTo make available these presentations
This is a reader state of the wikiURL is decided on when the wiki is createdThe pages are hypelinked and pages can be seen on front pagePbworks allows pages into filesFor the managers also used it for induction, orientation and mentoring of new staff, as well as faculty librarian in Design – links to publishers by subject in the faculty. This may be used at TUT because of how collection is done here.In the right hand frame – you can see asked to be invited as a viewer/reader of the wikiGive you a log in linkAnd you can see the recent update and activityPbWorks can also send email alerts on changes and updates.
We have used wetpaint for this workshopTo collaborate on the workhopTo make available resourcesTo make available these presentations
We have used wetpaint for this workshopTo collaborate on the workhopTo make available resourcesTo make available these presentations
We have used wetpaint for this workshopTo collaborate on the workhopTo make available resourcesTo make available these presentations
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We have talked a lot about sharing and collaboration.You will agree thatOpenness is a key aspect of Web 2.0: open source; open standards and open content can all help to bring benefits through maximising usage of services
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