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Comment on post 1688

April 7, 2004 By Will Richardson

My experience (and I do have some actual experience with wikis at our school) has been that teachers like wikis simply because it allows them to easily make new pages and add content.

Like everything else, it would take a constant push to get people to actually use a wiki consistently. It would pretty much need to be someone’s job…

Wikis also take a lot of gardening. Constant pruning and reorganizing. That also needs to be someone’s job.

The collaborative aspect of wikis is conceptually difficult for teachers to grasp and dicey in the political structure of a school. At best you end up with inline comments, which ultimately have to be edited into the text of discarded by the gardener.

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  1. Tom Hoffman says

    April 7, 2004 at 9:18 am

    My experience (and I do have some actual experience with wikis at our school) has been that teachers like wikis simply because it allows them to easily make new pages and add content.

    Like everything else, it would take a constant push to get people to actually use a wiki consistently. It would pretty much need to be someone’s job…

    Wikis also take a lot of gardening. Constant pruning and reorganizing. That also needs to be someone’s job.

    The collaborative aspect of wikis is conceptually difficult for teachers to grasp and dicey in the political structure of a school. At best you end up with inline comments, which ultimately have to be edited into the text of discarded by the gardener.

  2. Tom Hoffman says

    April 7, 2004 at 9:18 am

    My experience (and I do have some actual experience with wikis at our school) has been that teachers like wikis simply because it allows them to easily make new pages and add content.

    Like everything else, it would take a constant push to get people to actually use a wiki consistently. It would pretty much need to be someone’s job…

    Wikis also take a lot of gardening. Constant pruning and reorganizing. That also needs to be someone’s job.

    The collaborative aspect of wikis is conceptually difficult for teachers to grasp and dicey in the political structure of a school. At best you end up with inline comments, which ultimately have to be edited into the text of discarded by the gardener.

  3. Tom Hoffman says

    April 7, 2004 at 10:16 am

    My experience (and I do have some actual experience with wikis at our school) has been that teachers like wikis simply because it allows them to easily make new pages and add content.

    Like everything else, it would take a constant push to get people to actually use a wiki consistently. It would pretty much need to be someone’s job…

    Wikis also take a lot of gardening. Constant pruning and reorganizing. That also needs to be someone’s job.

    The collaborative aspect of wikis is conceptually difficult for teachers to grasp and dicey in the political structure of a school. At best you end up with inline comments, which ultimately have to be edited into the text of discarded by the gardener.

  4. http://www.helpaboutcollege.com says

    July 27, 2004 at 2:15 pm

    I have been debating on which to add to my site http://www.helpaboutcollege.com to allow students seeking college degrees to share information. I have looked at both a wiki and a blog. which would server them the best

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