Wikis and Collaborative Inquiry

Wikis are simply Web sites that provide easy-to-use tools for creating, editing, and sharing digital documents, images, and media files. Multiple participants can enter, submit, manage, and update a single Web workspace creating a community of authors and editors. Wiki projects help young people shi...

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Published inSchool Library Media Activities Monthly Vol. 25; no. 8; pp. 48 - 51
Main Authors Lamb, Annette, Johnson, Larry
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Libraries Unlimited 01.04.2009
Libraries Unlimited, Inc
Subjects
American Civil War
Authentic Learning
Civil war
Class Activities
Community Programs
Community Relations
Cooperative Learning
Editing
Electronic Publishing
Elementary Education
Elementary Schools
Grade 5
Grade 6
Group Activities
Information Seeking
Inquiry
Intermediate Grades
Internet
Language Arts
Learner Engagement
Learning
Learning Experience
Media Specialists
Mythology
Nominations
Oral History
Parents
Political parties
School libraries
Social Networks
Social Studies
Students
Teamwork
Technology Uses in Education
Web Sites
Young adults
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Summary:Wikis are simply Web sites that provide easy-to-use tools for creating, editing, and sharing digital documents, images, and media files. Multiple participants can enter, submit, manage, and update a single Web workspace creating a community of authors and editors. Wiki projects help young people shift from being "consumers" of the Internet to creators on the Web. Wikis are effective in promoting collaborative learning within classes, between classes, among schools, with parents, and with communities. Wikis involve learners in asking increasingly sophisticated questions about a topic. (Contains 5 figures.)
ISSN:0889-9371