Creating an Activity with a Wiki

Believe it or not, wikis have been around longer than blogs, but never got much limelight until the rise of Wikipedia, which has become so popular that it's hard (but possible) to have not heard of Wikipedia in 2006.

Wikipedia currently has over 1,200,000 articles in the English version which seems unbelievable (this is nearly 10-times the number of articles in the 2004 version of Encyclopedia Britannica)?! How could the people at Wikipedia possibly write so many articles? If you're waiting for something to do, visit Wikipedia now and see if you can find an article in your area of expertise... we'll talk a bit more about this great resource when we get together!

After chatting briefly about wikis in general, we're going to have some collaborative fun with a wiki of our own! You might have noticed the strange hat and timer in the classroom...

Scenario
You are a communications teacher at a small country college, who's starting to enjoy some of the new tools on the net - but you're definitely not confident with them! You are planning on attending a "Learning with Blogs" seminar in a few weeks, which should be great!

One bright sunny morning, as you're reflecting on the how well you've got your lessons planned for this semester, your boss walks in and says:

Look, you know that blogging seminar that you were planning on going to in a few weeks? Well, the facilitator has pulled out. We've got people from over 200km away coming for the workshop... so, I, ..er, said to the director that you'd be able to run the workshop instead...

After coming to terms with your anxiety, you decide that you'll give it a shot. Thankfully there's a large number of these workshops happening across the state and all the facilitators have agreed to chip in and collaborate on an Activity plan for the workshop. Since you've got a spare 5 or 10 minutes now before your first class for the day, you decide to take a look at current state of the Learning with Blogs activity plan on the wiki and improve it a bit.

Your Task
When the hat is passed to you,

1. go to the Learning with Blogs wiki page and have a brief read.
   
2. Find something that you can add to or improve (or delete!)
3. Click on Edit This Page and improve it!
   

Once you've finished, call me over and we'll have a look at our BaseCamp todo list, find someone who hasn't yet edited the wiki page and assign the task to them! And if you get stuck, don't hesitate to ask a person near you for help!