Blog Prompts:
1.What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
Sometimes when I am researching there are things that I have questions about that possibly the author did not feel were important or of interest. With the wiki concept there might be someone who adds information about a concept that I may be interested in within a topic. It is the idea that more information can be better.
2.What types of applications within schools and professional organizations might work well with a wiki?
A prime example would be for the AiM to create a wiki about the school for new and perspective students. Current or former students could edit the wiki to add information they feel future students should know about or fill in more details if they feel an entry is insufficient.
3.Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
I think this is no different that it has always been. When I was in school certain magazines or other publications were banned as valid source for student research. With a wiki there is a large amount that is open to question regarding the sourcing of information. Until someone else comes along and questions a citation or requests a citation it could simply be considered some one's opinion, not valid fact or statement.
4.Which wiki did you edit?
Yeah, ok, I am that "guy". I got logged in to PBwiki, but I couldn't find "The Ultimate Dream Supply Kit" . So I just played in the Sandbox. Forgive me, but I only have so much time to play around with the 16Things.
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