1. Wikis and other online freebies for your math courses
Reva Narasimhan
Kean University

2. What is a wiki?
wiki is Hawaiian for rapid and was named after the shuttle buses in Honolulu airport
A wiki is a web site that can be individually or collaboratively edited using just a web browser.
No special tools and no special skills are required.
You do not need to ftp to a web server or know any HTML

3. Some interesting wikis
wikipedia
You can search many wiki sites for a list of, say, education wikis

4. How do you start? Various sites on the Internet offer free wikis
Examples: pbwiki.com, wikispaces.com
Pbwiki is free and also ad-free for educators
Compares many popular wikis:

5. What can you do with a wiki?
Create your class web site very quickly
Post syllabus and related materials
You would make this a public wiki but only those with a password can change it
You can make interactive projects as well by linking to java applets for graphing, for example

6. And you can add Images Files Even a working spreadsheet! Go to
for a math wiki

8. Online freebies These are listed in my wiki
Local page: collegemath.info
Local page: freebies – part 1
Local page: freebies - part 2

9. Contact information
Reva Narasimhan
Kean University