Wikis for Collaboration: Examples

Wikis are used for many different purposes: an easy way to put a syllabus or instructions for students online, a place to collect documents or work on shared documents for a department or district curriculum, a place for students to share their work, and a place for students to do collaborative projects. You will see examples of all of these uses for wikis in the examples below.

1. Which wiki?
As you are exploring, make a note of which wiki is being used (PBworks, Wikispace, WetPaint, etc.). Do you have a preference for one over the other based on what you see?

2. Who did that?
Pick one of the examples and see if you can figure out how to see who did what on the page. For example, in a PBworks wiki, you will see a "Page History" button towards the top right. Click to see who did what when, and then choose two of those in the list to compare, so you can see exactly what was changed.

It's a good idea to let students know that you can see all of this. And it's good for you to know that you can always "roll back" to a previous version if someone accidentally deleted things they wanted to keep.