Icvet+Presso Jm

11 August 2007 www.saikore.com

WikiWhat does it mean for ME?



What is a wiki?

A collaborative

workplace

(get on the Wiki Wiki bus!)


•Easy to use


•A page history, and the ability to roll back changes


•Recent changes


•Search


Who is using wikis now?

Number of pages in Google that match a search for ‘TAFE wikispaces’:

July 2007 – 15,000August 2007 – 16,000

Growing at 1000 pages per month!


Who is using wikis now?

In industry

Many thousands of usages.


Who is using wikis now?Example: Academic Confluence usage

• British Library • Brown University • Cardiff University • Cornell University • Duke University • Harvard Business School • Johns Hopkins University • Macquarie University • MIT • New York University • Queensland University of Technology • Stanford University • Stockholm University • University of Bath • University of California • University of Hawaii • University of Melbourne • University of Oslo • University of Southern California • Yale University

• The leading enterprise wiki

• Used by over 3000 organisations


How can wikis be used in TAFE?

Project management SectionsTeachersStudents


Why are wikis popular?


Personal

productivity tool


Power to disseminate knowledge without

losing control


Easy way to collaborate


What to Wiki people do differently?

Wiki Behaviours

Three basic ones

(Lots of advanced ones)


BEHAVIOUR 1

• If you have something to write, write it in the wiki.

(within reason…)


BEHAVIOUR 2

• Send links to wiki pages, not chunks of text

(within reason…)


BEHAVIOUR 3

• Check the recent changes

(typically daily)


1. If you have something to write, write it in the wiki

2. If you need to send an email, send a link to a wiki page

3. Check the recent changes