Wikis and other online freebies for your math courses : Wikis and other online freebies for your math courses Reva Narasimhan
Kean University
What is a wiki? : 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
Some interesting wikis : Some interesting wikis wikipedia
http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/
http://caw.wikispaces.com/
You can search many wiki sites for a list of, say, education wikis
How do you start? : 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:
www.wikimatrix.org
What can you do with a wiki? : 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
And you can add : And you can add Images
Files
Even a working spreadsheet!
Go to
http://onlinemath.pbwiki.com
for a math wiki
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Updates – easy web sitesand other goodies : Updates – easy web sitesand other goodies sites.google.com
office.live.com – online MS Office
docs.google.com – online document creation