[WEB4LIB] _Educause Review_: Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not

[Sloan, Bernie]

Actually, this whole issue (September/October 2004) of Educause Review
contains articles about the impact of new technologies in higher
education. The theme of the issue is " New Tools for Back-to-School:
Blogs, Swarms, Wikis, and Games".

Here's the table of contents:

http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm045.asp 

Bernie Sloan

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Colleagues/

Wikis In The News:

Educause Review: Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not

In 1999, the World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee looked back on
the previous decade and lamented: "I wanted the Web to be what I call an
interactive space where everybody can edit. And I started saying
'interactive,' and then I read in the media that the Web was great
because it was 'interactive,' meaning you could click. This was not what
I meant by interactivity." That vision of a genuinely interactive
environment rather than "a glorified television channel"*one in which
people not only would browse pages but also would edit them as part of
the process*did not disappear with the rise of the read-only Web
browser.1 It's churning away more actively than ever, in a vivid and
chaotic Web-within-the-Web, via an anarchic breed of pages known as
"wikis."


[ http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp  ]

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Anarachic  Librarian 
Iowa State University 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu