1. Pavel Zemliansky School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication [email_address]

8. Wiki bus at the Honolulu Airport

10. A wiki is a collaborative writing environment whose members work together on the creation of co-authored texts through joint invention, revision, and editing.

12. Here is a slightly more “technical” definition of wikis: Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser . Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

13. writing in a wiki changes things...

14. traditional “authority” is supplemented by “collective wisdom”

15. collaboration supersedes individual authorship

16. the whole community of readers and writers assume responsibility for the quality of a text

17. wikis for learning and teaching

19. onward, to examples of wiki-based writing projects

20. Images used in this presentation are from Flickr, unless otherwise indicated. a pdf file with this presentation is available at www.pz-writing.net