Thing #16

I think wiki's can be a valuable tool for grade level teacher planning. If teachers work as a group to plan, then each can put info. that they have found into the wiki and then hopefully double work won't be done. It can be a great collaboration tool between the teacher and the librarian as well when planning collaborative lessons. Teachers can use wiki's with their students to answer discussion questions as well, but I think I might prefer the blog format better.
I did go ahead and set up a wiki for my family. I thought that this year for the kids' Christmas lists, if we all have a list on the wiki, when someone decides that they will buy a certain item--they can put their name next to it. That way instead of many phone calls for who is taking care of what, or emails that get confusing--we should all be able to keep up. We'll see how it works.

One thing I did see when looking at some of the wiki's and I could be wrong, but it seemed that they were more temporary than a blog. They seem to get used for a certain purpose and then never get used again. Those with more wiki experience, what do you think?