"What is a Wiki?"

Wiki is a Hawaiian term meaning "fast". The first such software to be called a wiki, WikiWikiWeb, was named by Ward Cunningham In 1995. There are many Wikis. The most widely known wiki is Wikipedia: which is a free on online encyclopedia that a group of people may edit. An increasing number of Fortune 500 companies are using wikis group collaboration.

Inc. Magazine published an article written by Darren Dahl in the February 2006 issue. The cover was titled “E-mail Overload? Time To Get A Wiki” and the article described inherent problems of using email and benefits of Wikis. "Which document is the current version? Who has made changes? Who still needs to weigh in? For managers, keeping track of it all had become a time consuming nightmare.” - Dahl

The “Gartner Group, a research firm in Stamford, Conn., predicts that by 2009, wikis will be installed on half of all corporate networks.” – Dahl

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Who is using JSPWiki?

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Technology Education Wiki Service Benefits

• This wiki was designed for school systems, teachers and their students.

• Full versioning history for each page.

• This wiki is provided by a nonprofit to serve education industry professionals. You may also download JSPWiki and easily export to the school intranet.

• Create a new left menu for every page and add your favorites

• Wiki WhiteBoard for drawing page links.

• Private, protected or group member editing.

• HTML, RSS feeds, and JSPWiki plugins may be enabled depending on your needs.

• You may add links to your existing wiki or school web pages!

• Add your poscasts, video, audio in your wiki.

• You and your students may add your favorite education resources. Reference Examples: VA.Students

• You may add features depending on your needs. Reference Examples: Wiki Math Tools

• A wiki is reserved for every school district. This enables a effective community navigation.

• Public education policies exist from federal, state, and local legislation activities. Helping Students Education Corp. has developed a wiki directory structure and supporting processes that supports intergovernmental and peer review activities.

Can students view or edit my teacher Wiki pages at helpingstudents.org?

• Students may receive an editing account only from their teacher or school administrator. Students may customize their learning environment by categorically creating wiki pages and placing learning tools and links in their learning space. Students may only view and edit pages granted by their teacher.

• Each wiki page may have separate view and edit and delete privileges. You may set individual view, edit, delete, and attach privileges for each of your teacher wiki pages. Some wikis are not designed to restrict group members from editing. We recommend that teachers initially restrict viewing access to members of your group. Once your group is finished editing, you may restrict all editing and publish or conduct a peer reviews.

• Transfer your school wiki to our school web site domain?

• You may also begin a student writing project, conduct a peer review and allow students to copyright and publish their works. Reference:License

If I'm a teacher or school administrator, why should we use a Wiki at HelpingStudents.org rather than a commercial provider?

• Helping Students Education Corp. (HelpingStudents.org) is a 501(c) (3) non profit public charity organization. Our purpose is to provide information services exclusively for educational purposes. Commercial profit driven organizations have a financial responsibility to their shareholders prior to providing a community or public education benefit.

• Why are there advertisements on this site? Adverstisements are removed once your logged in.

How can we support education wikis at HelpingStudents.org?

• Become a member .
• Get parents, teachers, students and local PTA involvement.
• If you're a student or parent, tell your teacher which wiki pages you like or dislike and why.
• Spread the word about wiki pages that have been helpful.
• Discuss a teacher wiki project with leaders in your community and ask for their support.
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• Make a donation. Small donations as little as $1.00 is considered to be large contributions. Donations help pay for our free technical support and services. You may elect to keep your donation anonymous or be added to the contributor list. Your contribution may qualify for a tax deduction under United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) code for 501(c)(3) public charities. /News/501c3.pdf The IRS requires non profits to provide a written receipt upon request for any donation over $250.00 Our policy is to provide a written receipt and thank you notice upon request for any donation over one dollar. Donations and receipt request may be submitted online or mailed to the mailing address below.
  

• Implementing teacher wiki policies, processes, and peer reviews at critical points throughout your wiki life cycle may prove to be best practices for using WIKI technology in education. Once you are comfortable with the content you may remove your wiki view access restrictions and publish your wiki to the public, parent or student group. HelpingStudents.org provides full life cycle process and technical support..

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