Short Video Explaining What a Wiki Is

This short (3:52 minutes) video does a great job of explaining what a wiki is.

Welcome to the Wiki Workshop

Wikis are web sites that are usually created by many people and are inherently collaborative. They're easy to use and free. The content is not hosted on a campus web server which can be good if you have limited server space.

WetPaint Wiki, the one we'll be using, will remove ads from educational wikis.

A wiki can be used for discussions as well as collaborative work. If you want to promote active learning, wikis might be a good way to do it.