So I began this assignment by simply running a yahoo search for "Educational Wikis." The very first site was found in wikispaces and was a wiki itself listing educational wiki. The page contains about 50 or so different types of educational wikis. From 2nd Grade Class Wiki's to ahsmedia an online media center for Apalachee High School in Winder, GA this wiki list it all. What is unique about this site is that since it is an open wiki itself, anyone add educational wikis or personal wikis with a click of the mouse.
One of the websites I liked was a web2.0 wiki in which it appears to be a centralized location for different web2.0 tool as well as tutorials to assist in using or explain each web 2.0 tool. Ever wonder how to use cell phones in the classroom? This appears to still be a work in progress, but seems like it could be extremely beneficial for new teachers and introducing these tools to veteran teachers.
What I like most about wikis is the safe guards behind them. Who has modified a page? Who is logged in? Who has deleted a page? Now we can get that page back! Students, parents, and teachers can feel good about allowing student to use wikis, since these type of safe guards are in place.
Another great thing about wikis is they can be easily accessed by parents. Currently our district sau16 uses Moodle. Within Moodle are wikis, blogs, discussions, etc but requires students to log in with user names and passwords. Parents either need the guest code, or their son or daughters user name and password. With wikis, certain information can be posted such as HW, upcoming events, class happenings etc. that are not so private and require students/parents to be logged in. I do use Moodle for journal entries, quizzes, file-keep etc. but a classroom wiki seems more manageable for certain aspect of the classroom. Most of all, students can be in charge of updating the information!
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I agree with you that the safeguards on Wikis make them very classroom friendly.
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