Wiki

After spending the last two classes learning about and creating a wiki, I feel like I have a much better understanding of them than what I learned strictly from reading the textbook.  I think they are great tools, especially for collaborative work, which I am a HUGE fan of, particularly in Math classrooms.  Wikis are a great way to engage the students and create more excitement in working with peers.  I think it was fairly easy to catch on to the basic tools on pbworks to create my page.  Some of the things I really liked about the wiki was the ability and simplicity of creating links to other wiki pages, websites, or e-mail, the privacy controls that could limit access to the wiki to a group of students, and that it does not automatically save changes when you are editing a page (like Google documents).  This would be a great tool to use in my high school classroom one day for cooperative learning groups, provided each student had access to an internet accessible computer to participate.