Thing #15

I edited the portion of the 23 Things wiki for lifelong learning. It was neat to be able to add things and see them all in one place, but I did have one concern. When I clicked "edit" I could have edited anybody's posts, deleted them, whatever I wanted to do. While this is great if you trust or know everyone who can edit the post, it would be bad if perfect strangers could sabotage your work.

On the other hand, a wiki would be a great place for collaborative work or collaborative learning to take place. A small, controlled group of people could really benefit from a wiki, because they could quickly and easily look at each other's work and correct, revise or update it.

The wiki concept has a particularly great potential for classroom learning, especially group projects. A teacher could ask a group of students to create a wiki. They could add images, text, even video. It would also be great because they could work together to revise and proofread their work. A well-done wiki would really make the old poster board projects look out of date.

What do you think? Are you too worried about other people editing your work to put much into a wiki - in other words, do you like your work to be YOUR work? Or do you like the idea of a community of people collaborating to create knowledge? It seems to me that this is the central question about wikis...