WIKI Week

When I first started the project, I had so many ideas that a wiki could be just perfect for. I, like many others, thought about how it could be a great soudning board for teachers all around the state to get and share great ideas. The possibilites for something like this are endless. My first ideas were about how this could benefit as a teacher, but the more I thought about it, the more I began to examine it possibilities for my church, and the list just goes on and on. Although I am not a master of the wiki, I still recognize how someone like me who is a beginning technology level person, could use wikis on a daily basis in all areas of my life.

The advantages of the wikis are countless. However, one of the most important advantages is the ability to coordinate with lots of people and have all of their input and feedback in one central location. A wiki page would cut out phone tag and email when you are dealing with a lot of people and information can be updated literally every second. The more I explore wikis and become familiar with them, I just have not been able to find any disadvantages. The wikis seem to be user friendly (well I have had a few difficulties), but overall I would think even the digital natives could be engaged and find use in a wiki.

After playing around on the website with all the tools, I really liked the Animoto application. Animoto allows you to uploads pictures and it creates a fancy slide show (for lack of better words). As soon as I finish this blog, I am going to put in a couple of my pics and see how neat it turns out.