One of the most important sites on the web today is Wikipedia.org . Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is created by people like you and me. The word wiki is from the Hawaiian word wiki-wiki which means quick. In 1995 Ward Cunningham was looking to create an easy online publishing tool where anyone could write and edit anthing anytime they wanted. If you know a great deal about photography and it isn't on Wikipedia you can create a page about it. If something you know is wrong about an entry on baseball, you can erase it or fix it. It know it sounds a but scary and there are always some vandals around but the majority of people work to make it as accurate as possible. Will Richardson stated in his book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, Wikipedia has over 860,000 entries from the hads of pleople just like us with the conceipt that everyone together is smarter than anyone alone. There are wikis on all different topics: Favorite recipes - Wikirecipes, Quotes - Wikiquotes, Song lyrics - kiwilyrics to Star Trek - memory-alph.org/en/wiki/main_Page.
I have created a wiki at cranstonclavertschool.pbwiki.com
** Click on the link and look for the edit button to try out our new wiki
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