26 July 09

So after reading the wikis for online collaboration im still not completely sure i understand wikis fully but, i can see why we are talking about them. It seems a little odd to me thought that to this point in my educational career every instructor i have had tells me to avoid wikipedia and wikis and now i am going to be using it completely. It seems really funny to have teachers say dont use it then i am going to learn how to use it and have my students do the same. But there are the reasons, like editing for anyone, it makes sense but you can still use it as a starting point. What i really liked is the way you can break down a wiki for certain types of learning. As i have been learning lots of students have different learning styles, so three seperate types of wikis can be used for seperate types of learning like the knowledge construction, critical thinking and contextual application. I think i will do an Event Plan that i got from the Contextual Application chapter for my wiki project. So much of what i do in the army is an event so planning is second nature and troops need to learn to plan and plan for everything under the sun. so we shall see how this goes.