Until this class, I'd not heard of a wiki. I'm still not entirely sure that I understand the wiki page I've created or all of the uses, but there is a plethora of information available about wikis that I'm only just beginning to discover.
Take this NY Times article, for instance: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/in-taipei-wikipedians-talk-of-fundraising-and-wikiwars/. Talks about gatherings of individuals who utilize wikis, most notably wikipedia, across the globe. Here's the information on the Wikimania gathering for 2009: http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.
I even found the originial wiki: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki and learned that wiki comes from the Hawaiian verbiage for "quick!"
Along the lines of digital storytelling and our discussions from this and past weeks, I found this youtube video instructing how to utilize a wiki to schedule a camping trip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY.
I can see the possibilities of utilizing a wiki for various applications, but am still unsure how to integrate this technology into the other platforms I already use and am familiar with!
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