Today I understood what a wiki is. In short a wiki is "an online community encyclopedia." I even created a wiki page on wikispace. The page was created for my own personal use. I have a lot of pictures. Its like my own personal collage. I am writing about my family, friends, and love ones. So when I am finished they could read it. I always hate when you have not seen a picture for so long and then you ask what was I doing. That's what I am using wiki for to add my comments and see what my family can add about that particular image. I may be surprised when there comments are added.
While pursuing my undergrad all my professors would tell me stay away from wikis, and I did. My professors did not like wikipedia because everyone can change it. Some students were using it on their research papers and having incorrect information. I missed out on a lot of creative tools because of it. Now I realized that wikis can be used to benefit students. As long as its monitored it can work. For instance, I explored our apsu23sandbox which has some interesting feedback on what we have done over the semester. I added information to the google page. I love my google reader. I use it everyday. I keep up with the blogs I follow and the podcast too. The ideas are great and the collaboration becomes easy because of the wiki.
I will utilize wikis for my students benefit. From time to time all have them post assignments, and make the class comment on our own sandbox. Instead of reviewing it in class they can review their peers assignments and comment on them. Their ideas and opinions will be shared and we will collaborate as a group.
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