• Used to enhance traditional classroom delivery and distance-learning programs (Espiritu 2006) 

• They are used as encouragement of peer-to-peer networking and buddy learning, central to the constructivist approach, which has made discussion forums the mainstay of Web courses in most disciplines. 

• Wikis are used as information repositories and as project management tools as the intranet of a company to communicate knowledge, ideas, and plans to others. (Espiritu 2006)  

• They are like supercharged online white boards 

• As a less rigid Content Management System 

• When your project team needs to develop a proposal together (Hemrajani 2005) 

• Plan projects, gather documents, personal to-do list, updatable grocery list (Hemrajani 2005)

Today we are going to focus on how to use them for project planning and management.

But as a pre-req for this conference we must first cruise through the muddy waters of the associated theory...