Robert Fant

A wiki, simply put is no more than a web-page(s) / web-site.

You have probably heard of Microsoft's "FrontPage", or Adobe's "DreamWeaver". One of these (quite expensive) ,commercial products are generally used to create web sites. Since the advent of the wiki, these are no longer required for the average individual to have a web page.

What makes a wiki unique is the fact that editing pages, requires only an internet connection and a web browser. Otherwise, no special software is required. The wiki can either be configured for one author or a community of authors, such as Wikipedia.

Student production is probably the most important feature of a wiki in the K-12 setting. With a wiki, students can build and demonstrate their knowledge, while communicating with their "global" peers.
See Shelby's wiki page. Everything you see (GeoGebra file included) was built and written by her.

Below is a snapshot of a page from my wiki. Although one must download and install fonts (for math symbols) and a special, free, viewer for the graphs, all of this is created at the click of a button. I dare venture to say that I have the only (or one of the only) such wikis in the world, offering math graphics. This is in great gratitude to Dr. Peter Jipsen of Chapman University.

Dr. Peter Turbek, Purdue University, has joined me on my wiki and is doing some experimentation of his own. View his page and get a feel for what he thinks of it.