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Wiki in Metropolia
Wiki is mostly used for teaching, project communications and think tank activities in Metropolia. Currently, there are almost three hundred common workspaces in our wiki. Most of them are open for the entire staff and students of the school. You may check out can see the list of the workspaces on the front page of the Metropolia wiki at https://wiki.metropolia.fi
The Metropolia wiki is operating on the platform of Confluence. You may study in the basics of the software in short in the Quick Guide.
How to get started?
Students and employees are able to create wiki spaces for personal or collaborative use.
More instructions about opening creating a personal wiki page are in the Quick Quide. .
You may establish create a new collaborative wiki space for studies (including projects, reports and think tank activities). Collaborative spaces must be initialized at the IT Services before taking to the use. Send a free-form request to Helpdesk (https://hd.metropolia.fi).
It is recoommended to write your thesis on your personal wiki space.
Larger viewpoints perspectives to wiki
You may read the basics of wiki in the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wikis in education:
http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Articles+and+Resources
http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/Wikis+in+Education
More about social media in Metropolia
Twitter account of Social Media in Metropolia:
http://twitter.com/sosiaalinen
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