Thing # 10 - 23 Things

Wow, I've now created wikis using pbwiki, wikispaces, wetpaint and even seedwiki. In all fairness I haven't used seedwiki in a long time, wetpaint was new to me for this project and wikispaces is the one I've done the most work on and keep coming back to so I must find it the most useful. Wikispaces has security settings that I like, I can block it from public view and set up accounts for users without e-mails so that's the one I've tried to use with students in the past. All of the wikis were easy to use and wetpaint certainly had some nice theme options and a nice layout. PB wiki lets you block the site from public view but I didn't find a way to add accounts for students. Although I find them easy and fun to use they are still time consuming for me.

Wikis could be useful for class projects where collaboration was an important part. Students could upload files, images, sounds etc. Students could comment and edit each other's work. That's why I thought that the wiki would be a good place for students to publish and post creative writing and book reviews. Wikis could also be used for professional projects where teachers want to collaborate and share ideas in one space, a white board so to speak.