[TIPS] wikis - in Plain English

For those of you who aren’t blog readers, you may not have seen this movie about wikis. CommonCraft has created a few of these movies designed to make the ideas of RSS, Social Networking, Blogs, and even wikis easy to understand. This one, “Wikis in Plain English” my be just what your students (or other teachers) need in order to have that “ah-ha!” moment with wikis.

Here are the YouTube links to some of those movies:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY – wikis in Plain English
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc – social networking in Plain English
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU – RSS in Plain English

Here is the TeacherTube link to one of them

1. http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=51aeb480ecbd988cd8cc – Wikis in Plain English