Thing #7 Wikis

These wiki's look like they would be a fun thing for a classroom of students to work on and correspond with students all over the world or with each otther. One of our Social Studies teachers at the 10-12 building does something like this with her moodle account through the ISD.

I looked at a cookbook wiki which had various related wikis including one for a Pop Tart Wiki - did you know the newest flavored Pop Tart is "Frosted Wild Grape"? It was fun to see where the links would eventual lead. Many of the wikis were very colorful some had advertisements on them some had ethnic wikis linked or healthy foods links. I would think a wiki could be useful in a Life Management class with students sharing ideas with others. Another wiki I visited was a site with literary awards database. It was many lists of award winning books with a synopsis of each book.

Some of the wikis had way to much information on them for younger students. Most were very well organized and easy to navigate. I also liked the idea that many of them had links to follow to other wikis.

I found a list of game wikis containing hints, tips, strategies, and guides to popular games. Rather than purchase the magazines the players can just go to a wiki
and find a walkway through the difficult parts of a game.

I would like to start a family wiki for communicating when we gather for holidays and celebrations (there are a lot of us) would be a good way to communicate with everyone at one time and decide where to go and who brings what. It would save me a lot of time as I always seem to be the one who has to organize our family.