https://www.wmwikis.net/index.php?title=About_WMWikis&feed=atom&action=historyAbout WMWikis - Revision history2024-03-28T17:41:26ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.11https://www.wmwikis.net/index.php?title=About_WMWikis&diff=465&oldid=prevAdmin at 20:21, 13 February 20202020-02-13T20:21:06Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Most faculty members have heard of Wikipedia, if for no other reason than its somewhat controversial contribution to student research. Wikipedia has been accused of dumbing down subject matter and of yielding to the "tyranny of the masses" because of its open, shared nature. While this may be true, wikis serve many useful purposes in terms of academia that have not been fully explored. One benefit is that wiki platforms are designed to make it easy for writers to collaborate on a projects of shared interest. William and Mary offers an open platform where anyone with a William and Mary userid can create and maintain a full-featured wiki to share information on any topic of interest, ranging from [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki| television shows] to [[http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/| focused scientific research].\\ \\ After experimenting with a number of commercial and open-source products, the Technology Integration Program has purchased a "private label" site license from **Wikispaces** to meet the needs of our faculty, staff and administrators who need more capability or public visibility than the wiki tool in Blackboard provides. William and Mary students and faculty in Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies participated several extensive pilot studies, and they found the program easy to learn and powerful enough even for relatively sophisticated projects. The School of Education has also switched to using wikis for their students' electronic portfolio projects.\\ \\ </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Most faculty members have heard of Wikipedia, if for no other reason than its somewhat controversial contribution to student research. Wikipedia has been accused of dumbing down subject matter and of yielding to the "tyranny of the masses" because of its open, shared nature. While this may be true, wikis serve many useful purposes in terms of academia that have not been fully explored. One benefit is that wiki platforms are designed to make it easy for writers to collaborate on a projects of shared interest. William and Mary offers an open platform where anyone with a William and Mary userid can create and maintain a full-featured wiki to share information on any topic of interest, ranging from [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki| television shows] to [[http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/| focused scientific research].\\ \\ After experimenting with a number of commercial and open-source products, the Technology Integration Program has purchased a "private label" site license from **Wikispaces** to meet the needs of our faculty, staff and administrators who need more capability or public visibility than the wiki tool in Blackboard provides. William and Mary students and faculty in Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies participated several extensive pilot studies, and they found the program easy to learn and powerful enough even for relatively sophisticated projects. The School of Education has also switched to using wikis for their students' electronic portfolio projects.\\ \\ </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Wm-Wikis: Free Wiki Space===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</ins>=== Wm-Wikis: Free Wiki Space <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</ins>===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Most faculty members have heard of Wikipedia, if for no other reason than its somewhat controversial contribution to student research. Wikipedia has been accused of dumbing down subject matter and of yielding to the "tyranny of the masses" because of its open, shared nature. While this may be true, wikis serve many useful purposes in terms of academia that have not been fully explored. One benefit is that wiki platforms are designed to make it easy for writers to collaborate on a projects of shared interest. William and Mary offers an open platform where anyone with a William and Mary userid can create and maintain a full-featured wiki to share information on any topic of interest, ranging from [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki television shows] to [http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/ focused scientific research].<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </del> After experimenting with a number of commercial and open-source products, the Technology Integration Program has purchased a "private label" site license from <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</del>Wikispaces<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </del>to meet the needs of our faculty, staff and administrators who need more capability or public visibility than the wiki tool in Blackboard provides. William and Mary students and faculty in Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies participated several extensive pilot studies, and they found the program easy to learn and powerful enough even for relatively sophisticated projects. The School of Education has also switched to using wikis for their students' electronic portfolio projects.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Most faculty members have heard of Wikipedia, if for no other reason than its somewhat controversial contribution to student research. Wikipedia has been accused of dumbing down subject matter and of yielding to the "tyranny of the masses" because of its open, shared nature. While this may be true, wikis serve many useful purposes in terms of academia that have not been fully explored. One benefit is that wiki platforms are designed to make it easy for writers to collaborate on a projects of shared interest. William and Mary offers an open platform where anyone with a William and Mary userid can create and maintain a full-featured wiki to share information on any topic of interest, ranging from <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</ins>[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">| </ins>television shows] to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</ins>[http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">| </ins>focused scientific research].<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">\\ \\ </ins> After experimenting with a number of commercial and open-source products, the Technology Integration Program has purchased a "private label" site license from <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">**</ins>Wikispaces<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">** </ins>to meet the needs of our faculty, staff and administrators who need more capability or public visibility than the wiki tool in Blackboard provides. William and Mary students and faculty in Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies participated several extensive pilot studies, and they found the program easy to learn and powerful enough even for relatively sophisticated projects. The School of Education has also switched to using wikis for their students' electronic portfolio projects.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">\\ \\ </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Features===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</ins>=== Features <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</ins>===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Wikispaces sites come with all the standard features of a light weight commercial wiki. Site owners have a high degree of control over page formatting and the navigation bar, and also have a fairly complete visual editor and table editor. Wikispaces wikis support embedding most common media types, including video and audio files, and offer a fairly comprehensive tagging feature to organize information.. Wikispaces also provides a comprehensive set of widgets to include things like spreadsheets, polls, chat rooms and slide shows.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </del> You can create multiple pages and control how they are presented using the side naviation bar, and you can upload media from class, like PowerPoints or other documents. This uploading process is fairly instantaneous, as opposed to the slow process on Blackboard. Further, it is much easier to organize content on Wikispaces sites.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Wikispaces sites come with all the standard features of a light weight commercial wiki. Site owners have a high degree of control over page formatting and the navigation bar, and also have a fairly complete visual editor and table editor. Wikispaces wikis support embedding most common media types, including video and audio files, and offer a fairly comprehensive tagging feature to organize information.. Wikispaces also provides a comprehensive set of widgets to include things like spreadsheets, polls, chat rooms and slide shows.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">\\ \\ </ins> You can create multiple pages and control how they are presented using the side naviation bar, and you can upload media from class, like PowerPoints or other documents. This uploading process is fairly instantaneous, as opposed to the slow process on Blackboard. Further, it is much easier to organize content on Wikispaces sites.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">\\ \\ </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Point your browser at [[/| http://www.wmwikis.wikispaces.net/]] and click on "Make a New Space" in the upper left corner. Type in the name for your space. (Choosing the name is generally the hardest part of the process.) Decide which "mode" works best for your wiki .WikiSpace owners can control access, allowing their sites to be either open to the public or restricting access for either editing or viewing.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Point your browser at [[/| http://www.wmwikis.wikispaces.net/]] and click on "Make a New Space" in the upper left corner. Type in the name for your space. (Choosing the name is generally the hardest part of the process.) Decide which "mode" works best for your wiki .WikiSpace owners can control access, allowing their sites to be either open to the public or restricting access for either editing or viewing.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">\\ \\ </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Support===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</ins>=== Support <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</ins>===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Support for WMWikis is available through the Technology Integration Program. Gene Roche heads up the collaborative writing focus area, and is available to assist faculty members or students in integration. Gene also works with the Wikispaces staff to resolve any technical issues that come up in working with your wiki.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Support for WMWikis is available through the Technology Integration Program. Gene Roche heads up the collaborative writing focus area, and is available to assist faculty members or students in integration. Gene also works with the Wikispaces staff to resolve any technical issues that come up in working with your wiki.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">\\ \\ </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> There are really very few problems with WM Wikis. It is a bit less intuitive for those less-experienced with the Web, but the available help pages are quite comprehensive, and help is always available through the TIP staff.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> There are really very few problems with WM Wikis. It is a bit less intuitive for those less-experienced with the Web, but the available help pages are quite comprehensive, and help is always available through the TIP staff.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">\\ \\ </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> *<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>http://www.wikispaces.com/help+index<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </del>One of the features that we liked the best about Wikispaces was the depth of their help files. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></div></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> *http://www.wikispaces.com/help+index One of the features that we liked the best about Wikispaces was the depth of their help files.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most faculty members have heard of Wikipedia, if for no other reason than its somewhat controversial contribution to student research. Wikipedia has been accused of dumbing down subject matter and of yielding to the "tyranny of the masses" because of its open, shared nature. While this may be true, wikis serve many useful purposes in terms of academia that have not been fully explored. One benefit is that wiki platforms are designed to make it easy for writers to collaborate on a projects of shared interest. William and Mary offers an open platform where anyone with a William and Mary userid can create and maintain a full-featured wiki to share information on any topic of interest, ranging from [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">| </del>television shows] to [http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/ <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">| </del>focused scientific research].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=About WMWikis=</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After experimenting with a number of commercial and open-source products, the Technology Integration Program has purchased a "private label" site license from '''Wikispaces''' to meet the needs of our faculty, staff and administrators who need more capability or public visibility than the wiki tool in Blackboard provides. William and Mary students and faculty in Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies participated several extensive pilot studies, and they found the program easy to learn and powerful enough even for relatively sophisticated projects. The School of Education has also switched to using wikis for their students' electronic portfolio projects.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Wm-Wikis: Free Wiki Space===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>Most faculty members have heard of Wikipedia, if for no other reason than its somewhat controversial contribution to student research. Wikipedia has been accused of dumbing down subject matter and of yielding to the "tyranny of the masses" because of its open, shared nature. While this may be true, wikis serve many useful purposes in terms of academia that have not been fully explored. One benefit is that wiki platforms are designed to make it easy for writers to collaborate on a projects of shared interest. William and Mary offers an open platform where anyone with a William and Mary userid can create and maintain a full-featured wiki to share information on any topic of interest, ranging from [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki television shows] to [http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/ focused scientific research].<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </ins>After experimenting with a number of commercial and open-source products, the Technology Integration Program has purchased a "private label" site license from '''Wikispaces''' to meet the needs of our faculty, staff and administrators who need more capability or public visibility than the wiki tool in Blackboard provides. William and Mary students and faculty in Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies participated several extensive pilot studies, and they found the program easy to learn and powerful enough even for relatively sophisticated projects. The School of Education has also switched to using wikis for their students' electronic portfolio projects.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Features=== </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Features===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikispaces sites come with all the standard features of a light weight commercial wiki. Site owners have a high degree of control over page formatting and the navigation bar, and also have a fairly complete visual editor and table editor. Wikispaces wikis support embedding most common media types, including video and audio files, and offer a fairly comprehensive tagging feature to organize information.. Wikispaces also provides a comprehensive set of widgets to include things like spreadsheets, polls, chat rooms and slide shows.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>Wikispaces sites come with all the standard features of a light weight commercial wiki. Site owners have a high degree of control over page formatting and the navigation bar, and also have a fairly complete visual editor and table editor. Wikispaces wikis support embedding most common media types, including video and audio files, and offer a fairly comprehensive tagging feature to organize information.. Wikispaces also provides a comprehensive set of widgets to include things like spreadsheets, polls, chat rooms and slide shows.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </ins>You can create multiple pages and control how they are presented using the side naviation bar, and you can upload media from class, like PowerPoints or other documents. This uploading process is fairly instantaneous, as opposed to the slow process on Blackboard. Further, it is much easier to organize content on Wikispaces sites.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Getting Started===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can create multiple pages and control how they are presented using the side naviation bar, and you can upload media from class, like PowerPoints or other documents. This uploading process is fairly instantaneous, as opposed to the slow process on Blackboard. Further, it is much easier to organize content on Wikispaces sites.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>Point your browser at [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/</ins>| http://www.wmwikis.wikispaces.net/]] and click on "Make a New Space" in the upper left corner. Type in the name for your space. (Choosing the name is generally the hardest part of the process.) Decide which "mode" works best for your wiki .WikiSpace owners can control access, allowing their sites to be either open to the public or restricting access for either editing or viewing.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Support===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Getting Started=== </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>Support for WMWikis is available through the Technology Integration Program. Gene Roche heads up the collaborative writing focus area, and is available to assist faculty members or students in integration. Gene also works with the Wikispaces staff to resolve any technical issues that come up in working with your wiki.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Point your browser at [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">home </del>| http://www.wmwikis.wikispaces.net/]] and click on "Make a New Space" in the upper left corner. Type in the name for your space. (Choosing the name is generally the hardest part of the process.) Decide which "mode" works best for your wiki .WikiSpace owners can control access, allowing their sites to be either open to the public or restricting access for either editing or viewing.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Caveats===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>There are really very few problems with WM Wikis. It is a bit less intuitive for those less-experienced with the Web, but the available help pages are quite comprehensive, and help is always available through the TIP staff.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /> <br /> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Support=== </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Resources===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Support for WMWikis is available through the Technology Integration Program. Gene Roche heads up the collaborative writing focus area, and is available to assist faculty members or students in integration. Gene also works with the Wikispaces staff to resolve any technical issues that come up in working with your wiki.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>*<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>http://www.wikispaces.com/help+index<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>One of the features that we liked the best about Wikispaces was the depth of their help files. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></div></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Caveats=== </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are really very few problems with WM Wikis. It is a bit less intuitive for those less-experienced with the Web, but the available help pages are quite comprehensive, and help is always available through the TIP staff.</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Resources=== </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*http://www.wikispaces.com/help+index One of the features that we liked the best about Wikispaces was the depth of their help files.</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
</table>127.0.0.1https://www.wmwikis.net/index.php?title=About_WMWikis&diff=2&oldid=prevWmadmin: Imported from Wikispaces2011-02-08T19:46:42Z<p>Imported from Wikispaces</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>===Wm-Wikis: Free Wiki Space=== <br />
Most faculty members have heard of Wikipedia, if for no other reason than its somewhat controversial contribution to student research. Wikipedia has been accused of dumbing down subject matter and of yielding to the "tyranny of the masses" because of its open, shared nature. While this may be true, wikis serve many useful purposes in terms of academia that have not been fully explored. One benefit is that wiki platforms are designed to make it easy for writers to collaborate on a projects of shared interest. William and Mary offers an open platform where anyone with a William and Mary userid can create and maintain a full-featured wiki to share information on any topic of interest, ranging from [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki | television shows] to [http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/ | focused scientific research].<br />
<br />
After experimenting with a number of commercial and open-source products, the Technology Integration Program has purchased a "private label" site license from '''Wikispaces''' to meet the needs of our faculty, staff and administrators who need more capability or public visibility than the wiki tool in Blackboard provides. William and Mary students and faculty in Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies participated several extensive pilot studies, and they found the program easy to learn and powerful enough even for relatively sophisticated projects. The School of Education has also switched to using wikis for their students' electronic portfolio projects.<br />
<br />
===Features=== <br />
Wikispaces sites come with all the standard features of a light weight commercial wiki. Site owners have a high degree of control over page formatting and the navigation bar, and also have a fairly complete visual editor and table editor. Wikispaces wikis support embedding most common media types, including video and audio files, and offer a fairly comprehensive tagging feature to organize information.. Wikispaces also provides a comprehensive set of widgets to include things like spreadsheets, polls, chat rooms and slide shows.<br />
<br />
You can create multiple pages and control how they are presented using the side naviation bar, and you can upload media from class, like PowerPoints or other documents. This uploading process is fairly instantaneous, as opposed to the slow process on Blackboard. Further, it is much easier to organize content on Wikispaces sites.<br />
<br />
===Getting Started=== <br />
Point your browser at [[home | http://www.wmwikis.wikispaces.net/]] and click on "Make a New Space" in the upper left corner. Type in the name for your space. (Choosing the name is generally the hardest part of the process.) Decide which "mode" works best for your wiki .WikiSpace owners can control access, allowing their sites to be either open to the public or restricting access for either editing or viewing.<br />
<br />
===Support=== <br />
Support for WMWikis is available through the Technology Integration Program. Gene Roche heads up the collaborative writing focus area, and is available to assist faculty members or students in integration. Gene also works with the Wikispaces staff to resolve any technical issues that come up in working with your wiki.<br />
<br />
===Caveats=== <br />
There are really very few problems with WM Wikis. It is a bit less intuitive for those less-experienced with the Web, but the available help pages are quite comprehensive, and help is always available through the TIP staff.<br />
<br />
===Resources=== <br />
*http://www.wikispaces.com/help+index One of the features that we liked the best about Wikispaces was the depth of their help files.</div>Wmadmin