1. Wiki What does it mean for ME?

3. What is a wiki? A collaborative workplace (get on the Wiki Wiki bus!)

4. Easy to use

5. A page history, and the ability to roll back changes

6. Recent changes

7. Search

8. Who is using wikis now? Number of pages in Google that match a search for ‘TAFE wikispaces’: July 2007 – 15,000 August 2007 – 16,000 Growing at 1000 pages per month!

9. Who is using wikis now? In industry Many thousands of usages.

10. Who is using wikis now? An example British Library Brown University Cardiff University Cornell University Duke University Harvard Business School Johns Hopkins University Macquarie University MIT New York University Queensland University of Technology Stanford University Stockholm University University of Bath University of California University of Hawaii University of Melbourne University of Oslo University of Southern California Yale University The leading enterprise wiki Used by over 3000 organisations

11. How can wikis be used in TAFE? Project management Sections Teachers Students

12. Why are wikis popular?

13. Personal productivity tool

14. Power to disseminate knowledge without losing control

15. Easy way to collaborate

16. What to Wiki people do differently? Wiki Behaviours Three basic ones (Lots of advanced ones)

17. BEHAVIOUR 1 If you have something to write, write it in the wiki. (within reason…)

18. BEHAVIOUR 2 Send links to wiki pages, not chunks of text (within reason…)

19. BEHAVIOUR 3 Check the recent changes (typically daily)

20. 1.If you have something to write, write it in the wiki 2.If you need to send an email, send a link to a wiki page 3.Check the recent changes