Thing 15

Wikis are an interesting development in technology. It allows people to post and edit on a public forum type set up. Wikis are controversial though because often people have tried to use them as a credible source of information, such as Wikipedia, but considering the public is often allowed to edit the information posted, it has become an extremely non-credible source. Most schools specifically ban Wikipedia from being used in research or to look up information. 

However, wikis can be used for so much more. They can be used in a classroom to allow students to post and edit information about different topics or they can all post projects in one location online that is accessible to all of them. It can even be used as a forum for discussions between students and they can even post questions and allow others to answer. Some wikis, I believe, allow for an administrator to view the posted content before it is accessible to everyone which would be ideal for teachers to prevent inappropriate information being placed on the site.