Week 3: Wikis Will Work for Me

I am ready to ditch my paper handouts after this week and begin a wiki. I have explored each wiki presented and I believe with our institution's Microsoft-dependent systems, I will begin with PMWiki. Not only will I use the wiki for classes, but they will be helpful for collaborative projects. Our library has just created two teams of librarians to address the strategic plan we intend to follow for the next few years. I head the Information Literacy Team and I can see a wiki being a tool for outlining goals and objectives while keeping track of our progress. I love the on-the-fly editing and see that feature as the most valuable. I also find it interesting as a content management system to which our website will eventually migrate. Now, I am wondering how much of our web content can be managed by a wiki...another aspect to investigate. I want to employ the worn-out phrase, 'so many [fill in here], so little time', but I will spare my readers. Still, that is how I feel about all these tools for the organization and dissemination of information I have learned about in the past three weeks. And, we have two more weeks to go!