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Article: Wiki wise.(KIDS CAN ...)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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WHAT IF YOUR SOCCER TEAM COULD CHAT, share practice schedules, review sports movies, and post local soccer events on a shared Web site?
Or, the next time you have to do a school presentation with other kids you could review and comment on everyone's slides from home without having to email text back and forth or stay after school to work on the same computer? You can--it's called a wiki. My dad uses a wiki at work. In sixth grade, I used a wiki to plan a trip to Oregon for 50 Boy Scouts. It was fast and easy. In fact, wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian.
You don't even need special software, just an Internet browser. You may have already used a wiki, though ...