Wikis and other online freebies for your math courses

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Wikis and other online freebies for your math
courses

• Reva Narasimhan
• Kean University

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What is a wiki?

• wiki is Hawaiian for rapid and was named after
  the shuttle buses in Honolulu airport
• A wiki is a web site that can be individually or
  collaboratively edited using just a web browser.
• No special tools and no special skills are
  required.
• You do not need to ftp to a web server or know
  any HTML

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Some interesting wikis

• wikipedia
• http//www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/
• http//caw.wikispaces.com/
• You can search many wiki sites for a list of,
  say, education wikis

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How do you start?

• Various sites on the Internet offer free wikis
• Examples pbwiki.com, wikispaces.com
• Pbwiki is free and also ad-free for educators
• Compares many popular wikis
• www.wikimatrix.org

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What can you do with a wiki?

• Create your class web site very quickly
• Post syllabus and related materials
• You would make this a public wiki but only those
  with a password can change it
• You can make interactive projects as well by
  linking to java applets for graphing, for example

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And you can add

• Images
• Files
• Even a working spreadsheet!
• Go to
• http//onlinemath.pbwiki.com
• for a math wiki

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Online freebies

• These are listed in my wiki
• http//onlinemath.pbwiki.com
• Local page collegemath.info
• Local page freebies part 1
• Local page freebies - part 2

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Contact information

• Reva Narasimhan
• Kean University
• rnarasim_at_kean.edu
• www.collegemath.info