Thing 22

My Wiki.......... http://msladleystudyskills.wikispaces.com I am still waiting for friends to add their .02. Not sure when this will occur, but I knew I couldn't wait forever to finish my assignment.

Well, this is my second wiki. My first one was geared toward retiring in Key West and was just too hard for me to figure out!! I can see that through time you could do a lot with this. I am still not sold on it. I think my brain is on overload with everything that I have learned. I think I am not sold on it because it is not as easy as all of the other assignments. I figured out that the directions provided(even on the site)did not work/apply to me as I was doing them so I learned as I went. It is definitely one of those things where you must work with it quite a bit in order to be comfortable. But, I felt that way about blogging too when I started!!! Ha! Ha! So, being an old dog, I know that learning new tricks just takes time.

I think that uploading and adding to a blog is easier than a wiki. I am also still hung up on people editing things and I realize you can do something about that, but it is just a weird feeling for me right now. In fact, I threatened a teacher/friend not to screw up my wiki and to come get me if she wanted to add to it or edit it!!! :-)

Thing 21

My only experience before this class was Wikipedia. I had always thought that was pretty much it and did not know about other wiki's. This was a total learning experiment.

http://mrsibrahim.wikispaces.com/ This was the wiki I found and actually replied to the 2nd grade class. They did a great job!

My confusion probably came in the form of being able to edit and throw in your own .02 on the wikipedia. Not sure if you can still do that. I am amazed how students will go to wikipedia as though it is the gospel truth/knowledge on everything. I almost BEG them to avoid it and it goes in one ear and out the other. REally.

So, after looking around, I am assuming I am correct in saying that you can keep your wiki private??? Password protected??

I think that having a wiki might have some privacy issues such as will ALL parents allow their child's work to be public? Probably letters of permission have to go home before this occurs and I don't know if this would be accessible on my work computer. That could also be a problem.

Having a wiki as a school staff would be a great idea. I think if teachers could do this at school and as long as they had access it would be a lot of fun for kids to share work and get connected with other classes anywhere in the world. The possibilities are endless when it comes to meeting and collaborating with peers.

I know I am rambling now, but for some reason I might be leery of creepy people seeing what kids are doing too. I guess that could be considered a major stick in the wheel, but imagine someone out there has answers for this. Cool ideas!!!!