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=Welcome to POI_Wiki!= In recent years, more and more educators have begun to incorporate some free Web 2.00 tools such as Blog, Wiki, Twitter, and Facebook in their teaching and communications with students. For Week 5 of POI, we will experience and learn one of the core Web 2.0 tools in education -- Wiki. As a free and web-based tool, a wiki environment permits enrollees to co-write, co-edit, and co-publish projects all online. Furthermore, its environment is the same as a word document, which is user friendly for most students. As stated in an Apple support discussion on why sharing documents online is better than emailing them as attachments: “I don’t need to send to 20 other people, then get 20 mails back and read through those 20 mails. At the same time, each of those 20 has no idea what the other 19 are thinking and thus means there will be many overlapped ideas in those 20 mails I have to go through.”

See a Wiki in Plain English video below. Because the creator no longer allows the embedding of this video, click on the "Play" icon, then click on "Watch on YouTube" to watch the video. Thank you.

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