Describe a wiki you found that inspires you to create one of your own.
I have traveled with students around the world and really liked the "Comparing Hemispheres" wiki. I love the fact students halfway around the world can collaborate so easily on a document. I have a friend who's an English teacher in Austria. I bet they'd be interested in such a project related to ELA!
I also like the "Wikihow." It made me think about the technical writing assignments that we do and how students could post their "How to" paper at the site and see how it evolves!
What hurdles might stand in the way of your using a wiki? The obvious of things being deleted, intentionally or by mistake. Can you imagine a person deleting your part of the group project? That would be a new excuse, "Someone deleted it!"
What would it take to remove the hurdles? I agree there is some organization that would be involved and additional instruction if it was used with students. I think there are many useful skills that could be taught in addition to the original curriculum objective. It was neat to see one of the wiki's had a podcast, student made slide show, graphs, and a timeline! I think students would be very interested in trying this! Students would just have to make sure they had a hard copy of their original work in case it got deleted!
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