I got a little overwhelmed when looking at the Wikis. It just seems like it would be a lot of work to try to develop a project where students could really use a wiki in a meaningful way. I guess I should start small. There are smaller projects where students collaborate and work together. If I start small, my students and I can learn together. I am not aware of other teachers at my school using wikis, so I'm sure that along with learning the content of the wiki, students would also need to learn how to use a wiki (and how to use it appropriately). I think that it is probably worth the fight. Often, issues regarding technology seem to be too large, but technology is going to keep advancing. So we should try to keep up!
Personally, I think that I will try to create a wiki for planning events with friends. And maybe also one for one of my cooking groups. I found a recipe page on the International Academy Wiki (http://iatoday.pbworks.com/) which I think was supposed to be part of staff development. But that idea would be a great way for my cooking group to share, save, and access recipes. The example of the camping wiki from the video is exactly what I thought of as a personal application for a wiki!! Some of our friends and us go camping every year, and it can become overwhelming to try to plan and then to keep track of all the e-mails. I am definitely going to set up a wiki for that next time! Other tools that could help us plan would be a calendar like 30 Blocks (to pick a date) or a program like Google Docs. There are so many options!
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