Wiki

I liked working on the wiki activity because it wasn’t a very complicated or complex tool to use.  It’s very straightforward and has a user-friendly platform.  I didn’t really know what a wiki was before doing this activity.  It’s interesting to see how easily someone can go on and change information that I have provided about Gossip Girl.  As long as I enter them in as a writer, they can change anything, and I find that fascinating.  I will definitely think twice about the reliability and the source of the information I find on Wikipedia. 

I think wikis can be extremely helpful for group projects in a classroom.  Students don’t even have to be together in the same room to work on their projects.  They can all log in from home and make changes to the wiki and share information with one another that way.  Using a wiki could help save valuable time when working on a joint project.  It can also just generally increase people’s knowledge about certain topics.  If one student knows a, b, and c about something, and they share it on a wiki, and another student knows d, e, and f and posts it to the wiki, that’s six facts that maybe another student didn’t know about the topic before glancing at the wiki. 

Also, I think it’s cool that I can say that I now know how to create a wiki!