So I'm learning about Wiki's and its quite interesting. I can see the use and application of a wiki but it was initially hard to get into the spirit of what place a wiki had in general education. Can a wiki really help educators and specifically librarians? Then I saw some of the nominated wikis for "best in education" such as The Daring Librarian and Resources for History Teachers and I started to see some of the amazing things a collaboration of students, teachers, professors and other interested parties could create. I was impressed.
The problem is, I'm not entirely sold. I think wikis look very erratic, unprofessional and disorganized but that is coming from a layman's perspective. We are, however, a very visual society and make judgement calls on websites all the time and probably within 10 seconds of landing on the page. So if a site does not impress me instantly, I rarely stay to sift through and find the "diamonds" that lie in wait. So maybe that is what my goal will be in creating my own wiki (which is, by the way, http://truetothebook.wikispaces.com/) to put together the most aesthetically pleasing, functional, intuitive, information packed wiki possible. Good luck to me!
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