Throughout my education in college and graduate school the use of wikis was never implemented in my coursework. "Wikis make it possible for people to collaborate in a Web environment by creating, organizing, and maintaining a Web site of automatically linked pages" (Crawner & Lewis, 2006).
A couple years ago my high school connected every student and teacher to google through their school email. This is the first time I had been apart of anything where two or more people could view or edit the same document at the same time.
When I began using the internet that is when I remember seeing, using, and reading Wikipedia. It was a easy go to source when I was in high school. When I went to college, I was urged not to utilize Wikipedia because it is a blog type website. Depending on your need, Wikipedia can be a useful website.
I enjoyed Sailors (2006) article on the use of wikis in education. He stated that one great use for wikis is to work on, post or instruct about collaborative projects. I honestly never thought to use a wiki for a project until Google docs was introduced to our staff. Although I haven't used google docs to the fullest as a physical educator, I know it's available and there is plenty of staff who are well versed in google docs.
I actually just received a survey from another athletic director that was made through google docs. There is definitely plenty of technology and use for technology, it's just a matter of getting educated in it and implementation.
References
Crawner, B. & Lewis, P.H. (2006). WikiWikiWebs: new ways to communicate in a web environment. Information Technology and Libraries. 33-43.
Sailor, S. R. (2006). I thought wikis were creatures in "Star Wars!". Athletic Therapy Today. 11(6), 30-32.
A couple years ago my high school connected every student and teacher to google through their school email. This is the first time I had been apart of anything where two or more people could view or edit the same document at the same time.
When I began using the internet that is when I remember seeing, using, and reading Wikipedia. It was a easy go to source when I was in high school. When I went to college, I was urged not to utilize Wikipedia because it is a blog type website. Depending on your need, Wikipedia can be a useful website.
I enjoyed Sailors (2006) article on the use of wikis in education. He stated that one great use for wikis is to work on, post or instruct about collaborative projects. I honestly never thought to use a wiki for a project until Google docs was introduced to our staff. Although I haven't used google docs to the fullest as a physical educator, I know it's available and there is plenty of staff who are well versed in google docs.
I actually just received a survey from another athletic director that was made through google docs. There is definitely plenty of technology and use for technology, it's just a matter of getting educated in it and implementation.
References
Crawner, B. & Lewis, P.H. (2006). WikiWikiWebs: new ways to communicate in a web environment. Information Technology and Libraries. 33-43.
Sailor, S. R. (2006). I thought wikis were creatures in "Star Wars!". Athletic Therapy Today. 11(6), 30-32.