Wiki Collaboration

I think Wikis are great places where people can come together and discuss topics that are of interest to them.  It has great potential for teachers to connect with others who are working in similar fields as they are that live across the world or work in neighbouring school.  The problem with wikis is that they really depend on collaboration in order to be great.  In order to have collaboration other people need to be involved as it is pretty hard to collaborate with yourself.  The week that we were supposed to work on the Wiki collaboration I posted my thoughts on my LMS early in the week.  I checked back several times throughout the week to see if anyone else had added content, which they hadn’t.  This means 1 of 2 things… either I am the only one in the class who is using this specific LMS, or that other people chose not to participate.  Either way, it left me collaborating with myself, which defeats the purpose of collaboration, and is really one of the down sides of Wikis.  I have used Wiki’s in the past, and will probably continue to use them in the future in my classroom as I do find them useful.