Wikis are a great way to build a site of your own. Link it to your blog. Or try a Weebly, a combination of a wiki and a blog. Their strength is as a collaboration site where a group can develop and maintain the information together for public or private use. Your choice. Here's more...
To complete Thing 21 you must:
A. Learn how wikis work
B. Explore a variety of writer-based wikis
C. Reflect on Thing 21 on your blog
Learn how wikis work
Let's start with a video to explain the process.
Video: Wikis in Plain English
Video: Weebly Demo
Wikis have been around longer than Weebly. Here are two articles about them. Read 7 Things You Should Learn about Wikis to learn more about wikis. Next read about Weebly in Time.
Wikis and Weebly are easy to build. No special skills are necessary, works on any computer platform, and it's free. On a wiki, you can require users to log-in before being able to edit. Use the history feature to keep up on what's been changed and by whom. Earlier versions of a page can always be accessed.
Explore a variety of writer-based wikis
- Writer wiki sites on Wet Paint
- How to Be a Freelance Writer? from Should I do what I love?
- Hyattsville
- Writer Legacy
- Visual Narratives
Describe a wiki you found that inspires you to create one of your own. What hurdles might stand in the way of your using a wiki? What would it take to remove the hurdles? Is it worth the fight?
--Return to the Writer Thing List
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