A wiki is a web site that lets any visitor become a participant: you can share information. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection. A wiki is continuously “under revision. The word "wiki" comes from Hawaiian language, meaning "quick" or "fast. “
Wiki spaces are tools that represent a great help for teachers and students in the English teaching task. It has a very important characteristic that make it different from another source of the internet. Wikis are used in the “real world” by people collaborating on projects or trying to share things online, such as family information and photos, in education, wikis are being used by educators to conduct or follow-up after professional development workshops or as a communication tool with parents. The greatest potential, however, lies in student participation in the ongoing creation and evolution of the wiki. A positive experience in using wikis is that as we are allowed to create and edit the information found, many people contribute to create a space that has a piece of every user. As you know, many brains think best than only one. Wiki spaces help us to get into a group that expresses different ideas about the same subject, in this way we could learn more and at the same time use the English language.
What can you do with a wiki?
Wikispaces is a hosting service (sometimes called a wiki farm) based in San Francisco, California. Launched in March 2005, Wikispaces is owned by Tangient LLC and is among the largest wiki hosts, competing with PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Google Sites (formerly JotSpot). Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and educators are available for an annual fee. As of March 2008, they had more than 920,000 registered members and hosted more than 390,000 wikis. By March 2009, that number had increased to over 2.2 million registered members and more than 900,000 wikis. Wikispaces has also given away more than 100,000 premium wikis to K-12 educators.
Wikispaces is a hosting service (sometimes called a wiki farm) based in San Francisco, California. Launched in March 2005, Wikispaces is owned by Tangient LLC and is among the largest wiki hosts, competing with PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Google Sites (formerly JotSpot). Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and educators are available for an annual fee. As of March 2008, they had more than 920,000 registered members and hosted more than 390,000 wikis. By March 2009, that number had increased to over 2.2 million registered members and more than 900,000 wikis. Wikispaces has also given away more than 100,000 premium wikis to K-12 educators.
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