One of my summer projects is to learn how to use a wiki as a resource for teaching. As is evident from my first link, I use wikipedia all the time to start searches, often in both English and Spanish, although I usually don't start from the portal page; I get to it by googling a word. But by fooling around on the portals, I can have a different experience, more like browsing in a bookstore. I'm sure there are much better analogies, and that is something I will check out with colleagues who are working on just these topics: what is the relationship between something like an Encyclopedia and wikipedia?
One feature of Wikipedia I want to explore is the Wikimedia Commons, where I can find media files that are made available for free and without copyright issues.
There are many stories about how Wikipedia came to be. I like the image associated with this one. Hah! I did not know this: "Wiki isn't an acronym. It comes from the Hawaiian word for "quick," and derives from the name of the first wiki, "The Wiki Wiki Web."
Note to self:Cool tools to explore: PMWiki and the Google Suite GoogleSites which is, according to Jude, "spiritually a wiki."
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