Resources for troubleshooting Wetpaint

“Wikis in Education”, which is the link below, has a great Q & A section that has a lot of relevant and current information. They have a lot of frequent entries in their “Discussion Section”. Check it out at the following link:

http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/thread

(Please note that this wikis has a similar name to our previous blog’s name but it is indeed done by other people)

There are a couple more sites (with a discussion forum) that you can check if you are running onto some technical problems.:

http://www.wetpaintinjected.com/page/Bugs+%26+Issues

http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/thread/2458981/Seeing+my+friends+on+wetpaint+problem?t=anon

Nothing is perfect right, so it is true that can encounter a few bugs when using Wetpaint. Hopefully, the resources that we provided here will help in the process of using Wetpaint

Why should college students use it?

As mentioned in the previous entry, anyone can see that is very easy to use Wetpaint; so we recommend that college students use Wetpaint. It is a great web tool for students working in groups. Nowadays is so hard to find time to meet in person – specially when students have to form a group for a class project. Using Wetpaint makes it easy for people to work together online, to brainstorm a potential topic, write and edit papers, and share multimedia items (photo and video). In short it is a very complete tool for people to collaborate online.

One thing that makes it very easy to use Wetpaint is their user interface – the menu of tools is very visible on top of the site. The following is a typical menu on a Wetpaint site:

Home; Discussions; Photos; Videos; Updates, To-Dos, Droplets; Members; Invite

What is Wetpaint?

What is Wetpaint?
Wetpaint lets you build a rich, online community around the whatever-it-is that you’re really into. Utilizing the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks, Wetpaint mixes everything you need so you can create, collect, and organize content on your own social website.

Starting is as easy as pie. Mmmm… pie.
Wetpaint makes it easy and fun to create free websites where anyone can contribute content, opinions and their mad enthusiasm for the whatever-it-is that rocks their socks. And, with the easy-to-use click and type tools, anyone can participate without a single “D’oh!”

Adding content is a piece of cake. Ohhh… frosting.
With the EasyEdit Toolbar, it’s ridiculously easy to add content or participate on other people’s social websites. You can simply click on any open page and start typing. It’s also that easy to add photos, YouTube videos, polls, or correct the inaccurate fact that only a true fan like you would know.

Don’t feel like baking from scratch? Join the fun.
You don’t have to start your own site, you can always join and contribute to another. Just use our search box up in the top right-hand corner and see who’s already started a page around any particular topic you would like to get involved in.
–source: wetpaint.com

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Wikis used in Education

What is a wiki?

Wiki is in Ward’s original description:

The simplest online database that could possibly work.

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.

Like many simple concepts, “open editing” has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users. (source: wiki.org)

Below is a video about Wet Paint, a famous wiki that is popular in colleges and universities.

Wikis are part of the growing popularity of Web 2.0 The video below talks about the important use of web 2.0 in education.