Week 7: Thing 16

I agree with someone else who did not like the layout of the wikis that are like wikipedia. I also prefer the more personalized pages.

I am a little lost, wandering through the wiki mazes. I remembered that Joyce Valenza had said she was going to change all of her pathfinders to wikis after she discovered them, but when I checked them on the Springfield Township High School Library site, they didn't seem to be in a wiki format. I did not see any place where an entry could be added, edited, or deleted.

I have done some prior research on wikis and do like the idea of using them for a class project. From the blogs that I have read by other students in this course, I have been encouraged to learn that although I am in the information gathering phase right now, it is possible that I will be able to use these applications at some point in my school - as long as our technology will support them (as someone else mentioned).

One thing that I am a little confused about is the idea that wikis are easier to use than web pages. Our school has a static web page. Our district does nothing to update the school web pages, and most schools don't either. I am wondering if it is possible to have a school wiki with out a school web site.