#18 Wikis

Wikis! What would the world be like without Wikis? The Launch of Wikipedia has unequivocally changed the Internet landscape. In education it herald the end of setting assignment tasks where students regurgitate already known information! It really begs the question as to why many of the assignments educators set are still of this old paradigm.  It definitely is time for change.  Instead of shunning Wikipedia we should embrace it and setting assignments that use Wikis!!!  Mmmm, sounds like a plan.  I had a bit of a look at Moodle (which is an online content manager that many schools use) and it has a Wikis function (is it one Wiki? two Wikis? is it a real word yet? I think I am getting side tracked, but it could be a new word, I just need to get everyone using the word!!). I feel a new assignment is starting to be born!!!  I sometimes feel just ever so slightly sorry for my students.