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The Physics Teacher -- September 2011 -- Volume 49, Issue 6, pp. 363

Wikis as a Teaching Tool in Physics Classrooms

Hashini E. Mohottala

University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

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The advances of the digital age have made the duty and responsibility of the professor more complex and involved. The Internet has made powerful and useful tools available to us to disseminate knowledge in an interesting and effective manner. In this article, I discuss one such tool: Wikispaces (wikis)—a set of interactive web pages that can be accessed and updated by a group of users using any web browser.1

© 2011 American Association of Physics Teachers

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank Mr. Sanjeewa Karunaratne from the University of Connecticut for introducing wikis, Dr. E. Deveney from the Bridgewater State University for valuable discussions, Dr. Nels P. Highberg from the University of Hartford for organizing a wiki workshop, and the students who enrolled in PHY 214 in the spring of 2009 for their participation in maintaining the wikis.7

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Internet, physics education, teaching, Web sites

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0031-921X (print)  

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3628266

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