"Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly." (BoLeuf, 2002)
From: http://www.wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
Basically, a group who has a Wiki. Can create information, and anybody, anywhere, who has permission to this information, can edit this document at anytime.
What makes it so different than the blogs? In my blog (unless you are a sophisicated hacker) you cannot edit any piece of my posting. The only one who can is me (and anyone who has access to my username and password).
The Power of a Wiki:
The Power of a Wiki is as stated above, it can be edited anywhere, anyplace, and anytime as long as you have that permission.
Educational Usage:
(1) A group of teachers in Texas have decided to use a Blackboard.com Application in which they centralize their lesson plan into a server that's a wiki. They discuss any changes on a blog, then someone goes in through the wiki and make changes.
http://ezp
(2) Tellabcolloborative Projects - See next post.
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