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Wiki engines are some of the most versatile platforms for creating websites out there. MediaWiki (the engine that powers Wikipedia) is probably the most widely used, but there are literally hundreds of other wiki engines. We previously covered more than 30 of these apps in our first Wiki Toolbox. Here are more than 100 others to meet your every wiki need.

"Wikis have different applications in the K12 classroom, they are used for pedagogical, administrative and social goals. You will find here some examples of the uses of wikis and links to popular wikis and readings about those uses. "

You can do a lot with wikis. But before you get to the fancy stuff, you have to master the basics - and that goes for your students, as well. Now that the school year is underway, we put together a quick 15-20 minute activity, designed to get students comfortable with using wikis. All you need is this PDF handout, a wiki of your own, and a few minutes of preparation:

"Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom."

Welcome to Web Safety For Kids, a wiki setup to support presentations for parents about Internet safety. It contains links to a range of resources that parents may find helpful in a dealing with their children's use of the Internet at home. As the Internet is constantly changing some of the advice contained within this wiki, may also change and potentially become redundant. As such the wiki is not meant to be a definitive set of practices but rather it is simply a guide.

Hello and welcome to the VoiceThread 4 Education wiki. This wiki was started by Colette Cassinelli but because of contributors like YOU - it has grown to be comprehensive collection of VoiceThread examples from students and teachers of all ages and groups. The purpose of this wiki is to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples.

"We welcome you to our wiki and blog for supporting iPod & iPad devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level and with any number of devices. On the wiki side of this site are the deployment and management articles, and on the blog side, you will find the classroom activities (written primarily by teachers) where iPods are supporting achievement improvement for our students. We are posting as many help and how-to articles here as we can and as quickly as we can so you can continue to be successful using iPod devices in your classroom. Please let us know if there are more or different things that you would like to have included here. "

This wiki is a template that you can use for any Professional Development or Training sessions that address the use of wikis in education. With Mark's permission, we are making it available to educational technologists who are looking for tools to show their teams what can be accomplished with wikis in general - and Wikispaces in particular - in the K-12 environment.

A great Google Notebook chocked full of help for formatting wikis. A must see for the wiki user!

 Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which is right for your lesson? A Comparison Table

Awesome site for Wiki formatting and wiki stuff in general!

This is the wiki site for self-coordinated gatherings ("meet-ups") of educational bloggers, timed to coincide with ed tech conferences. An email discussion list is here. This site is a wiki, and so you add yourself to the attending lists, and help coordinate the time and venue for each "meet-up."

Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.

Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.

A collaborative guide to information technology in K-12 schools that anyone can edit. Use the links below, or use the search box to find info. Please add to pages, create new pages, and share your knowledge! Click the "edit" links on any page, or create a new page by using the box at the bottom of this screen. Contributors, please use the discussion tab for suggestions about how to improve this wiki. Check the Recent Changes link to see who has been working on what lately.

Awesome Wiki of the Periodic table. Click each element to get a whole page of info about that element.

"I have created this wiki as a resource for those who are short on time, full of motivation, and loving their Smart Boards. My visions for this wiki are: 1. Provide Notebook presentations that are ready to go and require no extra work for you. 2. Provide Notebook presentations that you can edit and revamp to fit your needs. 3. Provide links to tutorials, websites, and other resources to make using your Smart Board easy. 4. Provide a place where YOU can upload YOUR Notebook presentations, ideas, and favorite resources."

"With projects, you can put your wiki members into groups so they can work independently. Each project on your wiki is made up of a unique set of teams of members, pages, files, and settings. There's no limit to the number of teams within a project, or to the number of pages within a tea"

This site was created so that French teachers can collaborate and find the sources they need to empower students to read in French. ~If French and Francophone literature is part of your curriculum, this Wiki is for you! ~If you present your 21st century French language learners with authentic readings from the web, this Wiki is for you!

One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a brand new database infrastructure for handling huge amounts of dynamic information, a wiki interface, multi-language support, and people who are willing to contribute their time, effort, and book data. To date, we have gathered about 30 million records (20 million are available through the site now), and more are on the way. We have built the database infrastructure and the wiki interface, and you can search millions of book records, narrow results by facet, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone! This is an Open project - the software is open, the data is open, the documentation is open, and the site is open.

In this day of high-stakes testing and frequent complaints from teachers that they "don't have time to use technology" in the classroom, this wiki seeks to bridge the gap to help teachers see that technology doesn't have to be an add-on that distracts them from focusing on the curriculum. Rather than accepting an either/or mentality, we can begin to connect technology to the accepted "best practices" that our districts expect to see in our classrooms. Readers and contributors will learn and share information about specific Web 2.0 tools that can be used by teachers, and strategies that can be used with those tools that align with and support research-based effective instructional methods. Reference will be made to specific instructional strategies and a variety of examples will be shared covering all content areas from K-12 to college/university levels. This wiki is an information resource as well as an interactive space where readers can add their own insights and strategies.