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How adventurous are you? Are you willing to collaborate on a wiki to share technical information and tips for others to use and see?

Please add your 2 cents!!

Shift Happens
Here is a video that I think all instructional technology specialists should see. It was taken off a Blog recently and linked with permission. This really illustrates why it's important for us to move forward in how we teach and how we integrate technology. http://www.lps.k12.co.us/schools/arapahoe/fisch/didyouknow/didyouknow.wmv

**What is a Wiki...a Vital Part of Web 2.0**
What exactly is a Wiki and why should we be interested in using this technology? Wiki literally means "rapidly" in Hawaiian. However, a Wiki really is a collaborative web tool that allows web pages to be created easily (hmmm?) by anyone, with the added feature of being able to be edited by anyone.

Traditionally, web pages are only edited by those that own the web pages, which takes away the collaborative nature of putting things up on the internet. Additionally, giving students the ability to "make the world a little flatter" is an opportunity that we should be giving our students. The fact that they could collaborate with others around the globe in gaining knowledge is a vital part of learning. What we must teach them is how to deal witht he VAST amounts of information that students are presented as part of using a Wiki, a Blog or any of the new technology deemed part of the growing Web 2.0.

I think our job is to take our teachers who are at the adoption phase in technology and try and move them to the adaption phase. Teachers need to see the importance of technology, and realize their part in bringing that to their students. Some Wiki's that you may have used: [|Wikihow] [|Wikipedia]

__Take a Page -- Edit it and try it out!!__
Jackie McMahon Darla Norwood Holly Plost Richard Lewis Stacie Boudrie Kathy Mathison Stephanie Jacobs