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Wiki, wiki, wiki
The world of Wiki is like having the old Encyclopedia Britannica at your fingertips. It is an online collection of information, a database, which can be edited by others. I have used the Wikipedia site for almost a year now. Recently, it was helpful on findings MUDS and MOOS. I found several versions of Wiki I did not know about. The first one was the Wiki Wiki Web, located at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb. What I found when researching this page is that it has lots of hyperlinks, and I ended up getting lost in a circular pattern of reading hyperlinks. The page has a more programmer oriented discourse. I decided after 15 minutes of exploring not to use this site as a resource for teaching.
The one that was more user friendly was wikiHow. Their main page is http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page. On the left side are most recent posts of articles posted by users, and I now know how to crack a master lock. The articles I read were very insightful. Creating a page was very easy, and it included an RSS feed, too.
September 24th, 2007 at 10:40 am
I’m a wikiHow volunteer editor/admin and I just wanted to thank you for the nice writeup. I’m glad to hear that you think wikiHow is the most user friendly wiki. The people who have designed the site have worked hard to get it that way
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September 26th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
I was very honored to see your post on my blog. It has given me a new link for my gator feed and really enriched my reading pleasure. I will pass along your site to my high school students and colleagues so they can enjoy reading also. Keep up the good work!