Thing #8

   I am guilty of using Wikipedia and I really think is a good idea/project. Of course, it is not a good source of information for those who want to learn something completely new, but if you have an idea of what you are looking of or some prior knowledge I believe you will be able to tell if what you are reading is the true thing.
   During my browising for wikis I found a lot of great ideas but when I tried to see them working most of them were just ideas that never had the public support. Like the one from Princeton about books. I went in there hoping to find people talking about books but to my surprise there were only two books listed under science fiction, when I selected one of them all it had was a "review" by somebody who read it and that was it. Only two books.
   Most of the teacher ones were the same, teachers doing the entries but no students contributing to the wiki. I really feel that for a wiki to be a good classroom project, it has to have the collaboration of everybody. Maybe do something related to the community where some fieldwork is required in order to have real time information. This would require everybody to do their part and not feel like only the smart kids are able to do it.