Mr. Wiki and I are pretty familiar with one another. I've used them for a little over a year now. I first saw them when my department chair wanted teachers to sign up for what they would bring to the first annual English Department Potluck Friday. Later, we used them again with our kids, but I'll explain more about that in another Thing. I found some of the wikis useful. The Princeton BookLovers Wiki was neat because it divided up books according to genres and included comments and reviews from readers. It would be nice for my kids to see what people are reading and how they felt about it before choosing books of their own to read for Outside Reading. The Middle School Tech Wiki had lots of ideas for Middle School teachers and even had lesson plans. It was nice to see a collective list of teacher wikis on the Educational Wiki. It's always nice to have one place that you can use to find multiple resources.
I think Wikis are a great way to collaborate and share with teachers around the world ideas and lessons. If we expect our kids to use their peers as resources, I think it is important that we do the same. Since teaching takes up much of our day, I think connecting to other teachers via technology like Wikis is an awesome solution.
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