To blog or to wiki, that is the question. Learning about wiki this past class has made me wonder how I felt about wikis. It is definitely conflicting as there are pros and cons to it. One of my favorite website is wikipedia.org and I love it. When I start to read one page, I end up having up to ten tabs open because of the articles/links I find within the post. However, as much as I like to read the articles, I hate writing them. The wikipedia has everything! What can you add to it??? When I took a teachnology and media class in my undergrad, one of my assignment was to do a wiki post, and that was my thought exactly.
The wiki is a community where anyone can edit the content. That is something I am not sure about. If I was to use wiki's as a tool in my classroom, I need to make sure that the students can handle it if their post was greatly modified or erased. I know I felt horrible when I checked up on my wiki from my technology class to find that it had been deleted! How rude! But really, it was not fun to find it gone. Students learn from each other, but I would really question if I would have one in my classroom as I have to be aware of the students' and their sensitivity (if they are). Maybe to balance that out, I can have them do blogs as well, that way they can have options and not care as much since one is a classroom effort, while the other one is for themselves.
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Good point! The teacher will definitely have to setup guidelines and procedures about being able to help students understand the colloborative nature of wikis. As we saw in our last class, setting up the activity and being prepared before using the technology is as important as the technology itself.
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