Wikitastic!

 

      When I think about Wikis I immediately think about Wikipedia.  It brings me back to college when professors made it very clear that you were not allowed to site Wikipedia as a source.  I never understood why because I did not know what a wiki was.  I did not realize that wikis could be modified and edited by any user at any time.  When I would read the information it always appeared to be accurate to me because and I would find other sources that matched the information on Wikipedia so I could site the sources in my research papers.  I still relied on Wikipedia to help guide my search efforts.  I am still unsure of wikis and hope that the next few weeks of grad school will help to persuade my thoughts on them.   I am still unsure of how I might use wikis with second graders that have trouble just logging onto the computers alone.  I definitely feel wikis could be very beneficial and useful to students in upper graders and high school.