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**Tearing Down the Walls with Wiki** //Macy Huynh, Educational Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, mjhuynh@hawaii.edu // //James Petersen, Educational Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, jpeterse@hawaii.edu  Miki Kamimura, Educational Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, mkamimur@hawaii.edu //

A wiki, which is the Hawaiian word for "quick," is a Web 2.0 learning tool that is quickly becoming a preferred web 2.0 tool. In other words, wikis are "tearing down the walls" to enhance and facilitate learning, communication, and collaboration between students, teachers, and classroom content. Wikis are allowing individuals to interact with one another through a single Web browser. It can be thought of as a combination of a Webpage and a Word document, but instead of having a single author, there may be multiple authors that edit and contribute content to the page. It is not necessary to know a programming language or code or to download any special software. All the sharing of information and the creating of content can easily be done within a web browser.

K-12 teachers, wikis can be used as both a collaborative tool between teacher and teacher, teacher and student, and student and student or it can be used as an individualized tool for both teachers and students to document their own thoughts and ideas.

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