Thursday, July 3, 2008
Thing 16: Wikis
For me, the jury is still out on a wiki. There is the ever present, pervasive belief that what is posted on the Web is the gospel truth, so help you God. That is a huge barrier for youngsters to hurdle. If a teacher is diligent having students note and correctly post their citations, maybe. For adults, not so much a problem. Obviously, some of the very "benefits" of wickis that make them so attractive, are also their greatest pitfalls. I noted one site, "Best Practiced Wikis", now requires an e-mail confirmation in order to create an account...seems there has been vandalism.
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When will we get the kids to understand that. I actually used the story I heard on the news about Craigs list - about people in Oregan coming and carting his stuff away because there was an ad in Craigs list (this may be an urban legend but the idea still works). Supposedly when the police arrived all these people waved their Craigs list posting. So it is not just kids.
My other issue is that Wikipedia gets (well spammed is not the correct word) slammed? every once in awhile and I have twice run into pornographic writing there. It got quickly removed but still - I would not want a kid to run into what I did. I hope the "vandalism" gets taken care of.
How about the possibility of using a wiki to have your teachers sign up for a time slot for something happening in the library by sending them a link to a wiki that already has the time slots posted. They can just access the wiki, click the edit button and sign up for a convenient time. No more endless emails back and forth and no more problems with them not having time to sign up in the office. I’m going to try that for my first wiki experiment!
Wow! A link for a must see wiki is posted on the "I ♥ bibliophiles"
blog under Thing #16
This will give you lots of ideas!!
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