Wikis

Wikis have become an incredibly popular term in the ed tech community, and at first it was a something that educators steered their students away from as valid references, because of the lack of authenticity. Though as time has passed the security measures taken to ensure that the information is valid, have changed the way some educators look at these resources. While the wiki plays two roles at once, a collaboration platform and an information resource, it also promotes some much more important principles, honor and trust. The ability to be, if I may, "open-sourced", makes the users rely solely on trusting one another with both their work, and their credibility.

I personally use wikis as both a source of information, and a way to allow students and teachers to work together on common projects.

Here are a few screen captures of this week's labs:

The university I attended before MSU had a focus on computer science degrees, though they have now expanded their academic reach by opening a charter high school with curriculum centered around technology. I visited the university's wiki page, and saw that there were no links to their new venture, so I added it under "External links". Here is a link to the page: Coleman University's Wiki

Without link

Wikipedia's "Edit Page" interface

New "External link" added

I chose to create a new PB workspace as I have used it a bit in the past. Hopefully I will keep adding more material to this new one. http://mrgonzalezedtech.pbworks.com