The first wiki that I remember coming across, other than the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, was in a workshop on 21st Century Skill Standards. When I typed in "21st century skill standards wiki" into Google, the top listing that came up was: http://visualblooms.wikispaces.com/ This site listed the top 25 internet learning tools for 2009. It is very well organized and provides content very similar to this course and will be a good resource for anyone who wishes to take this course to a broader level. It shows the top tools for each category and then gives you the comprehensive listings. You can spend an endless amount of time searching this site and not absorb everything.
Speaking of spending an endless amount of time searching information; the mother of all wiki's, the Wikipedia Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page should be utilized in learning for information on almost any subject. I refer to this site often to explore new concepts and ideas. Since it is subject to anybody posting to it, you cannot rely on it as 100% accurate, but it has so much information on so much that you can't help but utilize it as "thee go to wiki site" for many subjects.
It looks like the website - Wikispaces http://blog.wikispaces.com/ is a good umbrella to discover wiki's that have been tagged for a variety of categories. It is free, but you have to register to get into it. It boasts over 4 million users and over 1.5 wiki's. I clicked on education and came up with "Web 2.0 - Cool Tools for Schools" and "Getting Tricky with Wiki's". There are so many blogs and good information available to make it a site that boasts the tag line: "Wiki's for Everyone".
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Thanks for sharing and pointing out that the content on wikis (and many online resources for that matter) is not always credible. I love the idea that multiple users can edit the space in real-time, but along with that capability comes this issue.
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