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In my two previous features, I've looked at how to create a wiki and how to use them with EFL students . In this posting I'd like to look at a couple of technical aspects, how to embed video in the wiki and how to add hyperlinks, and how we can use them for teacher development. Let's start with the technical bit. Here are two video tutorials. The first shows how we can embed videos into a WetPaint wiki. To view this movie in a separate window click here Right click and the use 'Save as' to download a Quick Time version of this movie This second one shows how to use hyperlinks to link together text and pages across the wiki. To view this movie in a separate window click here Right click and the use 'Save as' to download a Quick Time version of this movie Wikis, through sites like Wikipedia.org have shown us what incredible power we have to create and share knowledge through the internet. We can also use the power of wikis for teacher development. ...

In this feature I want to share another tutorial that you can use with your students showing how to edit your wiki and have a look at a live demo wiki that you and your students can play around with. In my previous post I looked at how to create a wiki using WetPaint and a few of the reasons for using one. This tutorial shows you how simple it is to edit the wiki. As a demonstration I've set up a wiki using the Cinderella story so once you have had a look, by all means register and have a play around with this. View this tutorial in a separate window Download a QuickTime version of this tutorial (Right click and then 'Save as' ) So how can we use wikis with our students? You can upload student work for collaborative editing, though you should make sure they are comfortable with this first. If they aren't you could try uploading some other documents which need correcting or redrafting and get them to work on those instead. Get students to create a story collaborati...

In this feature I'd like to show you how to create your own free wiki using 'Wetpaint' and look at some of the reasons for using wikis to achieve educational goals. First, for those of you who don't know what a wiki is, here's a quick definition which comes from one of the most famous wikis, wikipedia.org . "A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content [ ...]. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites." So, what really differentiates a wiki from a normal website is the fact that anyone who has access to the site can modify its contents (this is often, though not always, restricted to people who create a login or register to use this feature), unlike a normal website, on which the content is usually edited only by the company or person who owns the website. To show you how easy it is to create your own free wiki, I've recorded these tutorial mov...