What+is+a+wiki?

Right now, this webpage is like any other on the Internet: it is static.

However, if you click the "**EDIT**" button (in the upper right hand corner).... you, Joe Shmoe, have the power to add / alter content!

Test it out! 1. Click "EDIT" (upper right hand corner). 2. (The "Editor" toolbar should appear.) 2. Complete the sentence below in **blue**. 3. Click "SAVE" on the "Editor" toolbar.


 * As an employee of the Carlisle Area School District, I feel ....like having more time off! **

Please watch this [|video] and skim this [|webpage], then click the "EDIT" button (on this page), list some additional facts about wikis beside the bullets below, and click "SAVE" in the Editor toolbar that will appear on your screen.


 * Wiki is Hawaiian for fast
 * it is a conversational tool for groups of people
 * Wiki was first introduced in 1994
 * used for collaboration
 * newer form of communications
 * Wikis are generally designed with the philosophy of making it easy to correct mistakes, rather than making it difficult to make them
 * easy way to create links with a given topic

Refresh your page.

Now, please **improve the overly-simplified definition that follows in red **, but please keep it to only **one** sentence.


 * A wiki is a collaborative website that allows multiple users to create documents, share information and edit each other's work. **

Now, please click on "Home" in the upper left hand corner, update the "Learned" column of your K-W-L chart, and click on **"**How can wikis help my teaching?"