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Hello Everyone,

Welcome to Generating Interactivity. It is my hope that learning how to use a Wiki will begin to generate some ideas on how to add an interactive tool to your courses.

According to Wikipedia, the foremost Wiki, a WIKI is:

A **wiki** is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages, using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor, within the browser. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software. **Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, in corporate intranets, and in knowledge management systems.** Most wikis serve a specific purpose, and off topic material is promptly removed by the user community. Such is the case of the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia. In contrast, open purpose wikis accept all sorts of content without rigid rules as to how the content should be organized. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work." "Wiki" (pronounced [ˈwiki]or [ˈviki]) is a Hawaiian word for "fast". "Wiki" has been backronymed by some to "What I Know Is".

Wikipedia. @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Please add your comments, thoughts, ideas to this Wikispace. Lets see if we can generate some original ideas on using this tool for our students. Be the first on your block to use a Wiki to teach!