As I looked through the various educational and library-related wikis, I was both glad and sad to see controls on editing content. I am glad because unfortunately control is needed, and I am sad because we live in a world (wide web) where people cannot be trusted.
I recently had a phone call from one of my co-workers. She was asking what I knew about Wikipedia because she and a student had encountered something highly inappropriate there. I explained to her the nature of wikis, which definitely burst her bubble. She had been taking everything she read on Wikipedia as gospel. Of course, the problem with the offensive materials was reported and quickly remedied, but it definitely left a bad taste in this teacher's mouth.
My favorite of the wikis I explored for this exercise was "Library Success: A best practices wiki."
Finally, I can see so many uses of wikis in the educational setting, all of them centered around collaboration.
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