Byline: SUSAN KINZIE Washington Post
First, the Internet turned colleges upside down, extending classrooms and changing the way people learned. Next came Napster and other file-sharing tools, then Web logs. Now, blogs are morphing into the next big thing on campus: wikis.
The wiki, which got its name from the Hawaiian word for quick , is the scrappy little brother to the blog, an interactive Web page that can be changed by anyone who stumbles upon it. While blogs let people publish their thoughts online, wikis take things a step further, creating freewheeling, collaborative communities: Students can edit one another's work, bounce ideas or link to infinite other Web sites.
"Students keep pushing for more interactivity, often in ways I …
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