Engaging+Students+in+Writing+with+Wikis

Kevin Amboe - kevinamboe@gmail.com

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http://iamliterate.wikispaces.com/necc09 for the presentation http://iamliterate.wikispaces.com/samplewikis for some educational samples of wikis http://www.wikispaces.com/wikitext for html things etc for wikis Types of Involvement:
 * Reader
 * Writer/Author
 * Collaborate/Contribute
 * Showcase of Work

PBWiki is now PBWorks

[|www.wikimatrix.org] for and evaluation of different wikis

Wikispace Text Formatting for wikispaces text formatting

PBWorks has a folder style set-up whereas PBWorks and Wetpaint do not.

Wetpaint has a menu bar that scrolls whereas Wikispaces don't

Many useful widgets available to use from many different sites like Delicious, clustrmaps