Wikispaces is a wiki hosting site that allows you to have numerous people contributing to a website. More specifically, a wiki becomes a website that allows collaboration between users in order to edit its content.
Likes:
I am a huge fan of collaboration. I enjoy working with people who are just as passionate about working on a project as I am. Using wiki's and their hosting sites create a great place to collaborte. I like how a wiki's end product shows the teamwork of a number of people who work together.
Dislikes:
I dislike the limitations that pop up in wikis when applying them to potential mantematical topics. It's very hard, if not impossible, to use math type in a wiki. Students would have to post a picture of the math type in order to incorperate math into a wiki. If another student sees an error and attempts to fix the error, they would have to create a completely new graphic.
In the Classroom:
In a society where teamwork is becoming a requirement, and with common core, students will need as many options to work collaboratively as they can possibly get. That in mind, wikis provide a very important option for students to work together and provide proof of that collaborative effort.
Overall:
I like wikis overall. In education, they have more useful/pros than cons. Unfortunetely many of those cons appear when one is attempting to use wikis in the mathematics classroom. I look forward to working with wikis more and talking with other math teachers who use wikis so that I can make it be a positive tool in my educational toolbox.
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