Thing #15 Wikis

Wikis are a really interesting tool in so many ways. They can be edited by anyone with access to it and depending on the wiki, that can really be anyone in the entire world. The entire idea is fascinating as it gives people who otherwise never would have communicated in any way with each other a chance to work together. I personally had a lot of fun seeing the rather haphazard and crazy sandbox of the APSU 23 things wiki. It reminded me a lot of the Geocities days of the internet as I have mentioned in previous blog posts. I hope my contribution to the sandbox is both comical and helpful for other students. Using a wiki in a classroom seems rather hard to do as it would have to be heavily moderated and as such ruins the spirit of anyone editing the wiki. Of course, one could use a wiki much like what we use for this class to manage documents and assignments but I believe this only works well due to the maturity of college classrooms. I can only imagine the kind of obscene things middle school and high school students would do to a poorly moderated wiki.