Thing 21

Wikis...

I'll start off by saying that I'm not that all excited about wikis. I can see where they might be useful for some of the examples given, but for the things that I found interesting in the few examples, I think I can do it another way using one of the "Things" we already talked about .

I liked the Examples of Educational Wikis wiki, but couldn't the same idea be accomplished using Delicious and bookmarking or tagging the wiki sites? Also, couldn't the example of the camping list have been solved using a Google Document that was shared with the group of friends?

I will be fare, and take a moment to look again for a few examples of math classes and see what they have done. (I'll be right back...)



I was looking through the educational wiki site, and it is a wonderful long list of wikis, but you can't search them (at least I couldn't get it to work). Let me try searching just on Google...



Ok, based on what I found, the math wikis I found looked like a webpage that the instructor created. Couldn't I just make a website at Google Sites to do the same thing, enbedding the Google Docs into it for collaboration?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't see wikis, as of now, as something that would enhance my teaching or interaction with my colleagues. I'm not sure how it would be better than a website for my high school algebra class, and my Alt Ed kids wouldn't use it either.

Looking ahead, I will go on to try to make a wiki, and maybe my thoughts will change. Here is hoping so...