Fortunately I have some experience using a Wiki, all from the MET program, so I had pretty much gone through the learning cycle beforehand. As I’m learning the hard way trying to figure out how to add a voice over to the web 2 tools, removing the learning step was a big help when it came time to post my ‘sightings’. As to the question of how the group collaboration and discussion differed from the Vista space, I think the two are distinct enough to deal with separately. The collaboration page, with the sightings, I liked. I liked being able to see everyone’s posting at once on the page. This made it easy to go back to someone’s posting and re-read what they had said without having to hunt around for it. I also liked the look of the page, it was very clean looking, everything laid out and divided up neatly with headings etc. (no, I’m not generally a clean freak). One other thing I liked, and I’m not sure if this is an option with Vista, I liked being able to go back a couple of days later and add to my posting. Even if you can do this in Vista I always have the feeling when I post something that it’s suddenly written in stone. One aspect of the Wiki that didn’t seem very useful for our purposes was the thing that sets Wikis apart from regular web pages, the ability to make changes to anything on the page. I wasn’t about to go to someone else’s posting and start changing things. As for the discussion space, I wasn’t quite as taken with that. I found that there were too many things going on there, it jumped around too much. I also didn’t like that the discussion was on a different page than the thing that was being discussed, I found it a pain to have to keep going back to the sightings page to look at the posting that was being commented on. However, I think the positive aspects outweigh the negatives, I like using Wiki’s and I can definitely see their usefulness in education.