First Impressions Online Discussion

pbwiki offers a discussion feature that some other wikis don't. There are endless possibilities for the use of the discussion feature in a wiki. For this wiki, let's use the discussion feature to discuss our first impressions of a wiki.

Click on the Log-in tab at the top of this page (on the right) to log in. You will need the wiki password to log-in.

The password is: smc06

Then you can click on the Discuss tab at the top toparticipate in the discussion.

Reading the following article from Educause titled: 7 things you should know about wikis will be helpful in your discussion.

Also, the following webpage will give you a definition and a brief FAQ about wikis. This will also be helpful in this discussion.

http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WhatIsaWiki

Also, a great article is "Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not” by Brian Lamb. EDUCAUSE Review, http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp

The word "wiki" is Hawaiian for "quick" and by saying "wiki-wiki" they mean "quickly". Wikis were created in the mid 1990s by Ward Cunningham, who conceived them as a "quick" way to create collaborative web sites. The name is inspired by the "wiki-wiki" shuttles found at the Honolulu airport:

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