Wikis and other online freebies for your math

Wikis and other online freebies for your math courses Reva Narasimhan Kean University

What is a wiki? n n 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

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

How do you start? Various sites on the Internet offer free wikis n Examples: pbwiki. com, wikispaces. com n Pbwiki is free and also ad-free for educators n Compares many popular wikis: www. wikimatrix. org n

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

And you can add Images n Files n Even a working spreadsheet! n Go to http: //onlinemath. pbwiki. com for a math wiki n

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

Contact information Reva Narasimhan Kean University rnarasim@kean. edu www. collegemath. info