Sunday, October 26, 2008
Wikis
I must admit that I wasn't overly excited about this particular aspect of technology when I first encountered it. I've learned more during our reading assignments and working with wiki's in this class. Honestly, I am not sold at all. I found that this would be more work for the media specialist, plus we would have to continuously monitor and update the content that is posted. I could see this tool acting as a great source for a "few" responsible teachers who were unable to meet on a regular basis to discuss time sensitive topics, but unlimited access would scare me. The reading indicated that wiki's have been utilized since 2000-2001, but it doesn't seem to be a very popular and reliable tool at this time. On the other hand, for those who don't mind reading the postings and utilizing it as a learning tool, this would be a great opportunity to effectively communicate to a larger group of individuals.
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I think in the right setting it can be wonderful. Since we have webmaster rights to our media center site, we are able to change what ever we need to anytime. However, we have other media personnel in the county that complain conplain, that their webmaster is too busy to update there sites and they wish they could do it themselves. For them a wiki would solve part of this problem. Especially for research tools that need to be updated fairly often. Also, it is a great way to encourage one another when you are having a particularly frustrating day.
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