I have had some experience with Wikis. In fact, I joined a Wiki that was set up by my Aunt (a teacher at East Grand Rapids High School) that was all about the MACUL conference. We shared all of our notes on each presentation that we visited. After reading everyone's notes, it was like we visited 30 presentations instead of 6!
I've also explored the KentISD Wiki. Their Wiki provides tons of links to resources. They use it as a fluid resource center. I think it has great advantages as such. It is quick to edit and allows the ISD to post new resources quickly and easily. The way they use the Wiki reminds me of a delicious site with editing and commenting powers.
I viewed the "Let's Go West" Wiki from the Web 2.0 homepage and noticed how the teacher used the Wiki as a whole class assignment center. Students were posting pieces to each section. Altogether they created an informational website about the Oregon Trail. All the while the teacher could edit and make suggestions about their posts.
Wiki's are great for sharing information, and editing. Actually, they are great for editing. I love how you can look at the editing history as well. I'm imagining a student submitting a paper, and peers as well as teachers editing the paper. All the while, the student can view the history of the edits and who editted, making corrections as needed.
I also love the Wiki statistics feature. Anyone signed in to the Wiki can look at the history of views and edits and get an idea of who has been there and what they did.
I think it's a little too free though. Maybe there is a locking feature that I'm not aware of, but it seems that anyone signed in to the Wiki could do some reckless editing and ruin the whole site. If I had to do it differently, I will allow users the option to lock out the editing feature.
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