Wikis for School Leaders by Stephanie D. Sandifer Chapters 2, 7

I  have related these chapters to chapter 1 in the Williamson book "Technology Operations and Concepts."  As I read these chapters I became more familiar with the Wiki and how some other operating systems work with the Wiki.

Chapter 1 talked about what wiki's were and some of the features and uses for it.  It talked about how anyone can edit a Wiki unless it is restricted to registered users.  It talked about how easy it is to edit a Wiki and how easy they are to use.  It talks about the two types of wikis, public and enterprise, and what the differences and limitations there are to both of them.  It goes open to explain the difference between wikis, google docs, and blogs and how each one can be used.  It gives a good explanation about the strengths of each one and which would be best to use for different purposes you may have.  I read chapter 7 because the end of chapter 1 said that it would talk about other tools that could be used and how they support and extend Wikis.  The tools chapter 7 talked about in relationship to Wiki are Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets and Forms, Google Presentations, Blogs, Twitter, Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, RSS Feed Aggregators, and Live Broadcasting and Web  Conferencing.  There are many ways that Wiki can be useful in the classroom and this talked about all of these different ways that Wiki could be used with these different sources to expand the capabilities of it.

I can see how these tools could be useful in the classroom.  I would have to become much more comfortable with each one before I would want to incorporate them in my own class.  There are so many applications and different combinations that could be used it is a little overwhelming to me to think about trying to learn all of them.  It would definitely be a process that I would have to take on gradually over time.