Learning+About+Wikis

Understanding Wikis
 Sentence Summary:  The term Wiki was borrowed from the Hawaiian language and means, "quick," and the online Wiki's are meant to be a fast way to improve teacher/teacher, teacher/student, and teacher/parent communications, because communication is vital in education.  Wiki Questions:  
 * 1) The Wiki is meant to be fast, efficient, and easy to use even for people with little to no IT experience.
 * 2) I like how each Wiki is used for specific purposes, i.e. professional pages, managing media files, creating artwork, etc.
 * 3) The pros are that you have a Wiki for basically anything you can think of. The cons are that they're not exactly compact or anything as a whole.
 * 4) You need to understand your audience, understand the message you mean to get across as well as what you want to achieve with the wiki, choose the appropriate wiki and then make sure all info is consistently updated and made appropriate.
 * 5) Wikis for learning is an excellent way to eliminate the work that goes into managing physical hard copies of documents and assignments, as well as eliminating the issues with documentation of dates and times of submitted work and edits.
 * 6) Educators could use wikis in the classroom to allow students the freedom to design their own learning based web page and to have access to all assignments. They also have the ability to turn in and receive assignments quickly anytime, and anywhere they have access to the computer.
 * 7) In my opinion, Greetings From the World (GFTH) is te best wiki because it offers interesting information in an interactive way that allows students to learn about a multitude of cultures from the most accurate perspective, which is the very people who live there.