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What is a wiki?
====The Wikipedia defines a wikis as " a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language". In other words, they are webspaces provided for individuals to develop content through colloborative efforts. Many teachers and educators have developed wikipages to create content, textbooks, other resource materials for instructional or training purposes. The term 'wiki' is derived from a hawaiian language word "wiki wiki", which means 'fast'.====

How do they help teachers?
====Wikis provide opportunities for teachers to develop content related to their courses on a wiki. This would help students to access the content any time and any place. Further, teachers and students can also work collaboratively to develop any content, by making the required edits and revisions whenever necessary. This permits teachers students to monitor websites and also be accountable for the published information and thereby maintaining the quality of the their wiki. It is considered to be a democratic approach to create a knowledge society. Wiki hosting sites.====

====To make your wiki page more effective, you can always support your content with additional features like images, video clipping or powerpoint presentations. Some of the other features are; inserting both internal or external links, tables, documents, audio files and chat sessions. As you go through this package, you would learn to operate each of these features.====