Thing 17

Wow, so that is what a wiki is! My sister was talking about a 2nd grade teacher at her school having her students use wikis to work on teams for reports. I didn't really understand what she was talking about because I had never heard of them before.

Wikis are different from blogs because anyone can edit the content. I can see how this could be useful in so many ways. I love the idea of teachers using wikis to work together on planning or research projects. The most difficult thing about working with other teachers is finding common time to actually get together, what a difference the use of wikis would make!

I would like to use the wiki that I created for my class and their parents. My original thoughts were to have a pages that I would post information on and to have pages that students could create. I would also like to have a parent to parent page. I first thought that I would be able to lock some pages so that only I could edit them and then have pages that students could be able to join and then different pages that parents would join. I now see that I need to purchase a membership to be able to do that. I think I will need to check into this a little more before I continue with my original idea. I think for now I will use it like a web page for class information and as time goes on and I do a little research on this, I will try to let it evolve into more of an interactive project.