Introduction

INTRODUCTION

What is a wiki?

 A wiki is a Web 2.0 tool which enables participants 'to create content online using easily understandable tools.' (Teaching with Thinking and Technology). A wiki can be open to the public, like Wikipedia the most well  known wiki, where anyone can contribute and edit the pages, to protected wikis that can only be edited or added to by its 'members'. Wiki users can add, modify and update its pages making it a fully editable site, which is constantly changing and developing. ' These self-designed databases can be used as a kind of mind tool to enable learners to construct shared and negotiated knowledge and promote active engagement in learning through collaborative research and data-gathering.' (John & Wheeler, 2008).

 In this collaborative task we will review the wiki tool from the prospective of a first time wiki user and an existing wiki that has been used in a learning context.



