This week we have been working on connecting to various social networking tools. We have created a Twitter, Blogger (obviously) and PBWiki accounts. We discussed in our forum 3 educational wikis that we would like to create. We also read the book Using Wikis for Online Collaboration, The Power of the Read/Write Web by James A. and Margaret L. West. It's a great resource! It takes you through the creation of a wiki, as well as giving you the types of wikis and their uses. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in creating a wiki for educational purposes. (Or, any purpose, for that matter.)
Our other discussion forum posed the question of possible pitfalls of wikis. From what I've read, the biggest problem with wikis is getting people to contribute and to do so in a fair and equitable manner. The aforementioned book gives valid ways to avoid this pitfall.
When creating my wiki, I got a bit carried away and actually created the entire project. I'm hoping to present the project to my boss for approval.
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