A wiki presents some challenges in terms of pedagogy. Because of the nature of a wiki content can be changed or even deleted very easily. I'd like to think that if you were to give a student some editorial rights they might act responsibly - but you can never be sure. If you are working in an EQschool it is easy to set up a wiki in a virtual classroom so that the teacher can have some control over the content.
As far as classroom use goes, a wiki is a great way to democratically create knowledge. Students should be aware of the content and the technology that allows this collaborative tool to be useful.
There are many innovative ways to use a wiki in the classroom. What makes them especially appealing in terms of creating content, is that there's the capacity to add links, graphics and images.
A couple of starters may include making a classroom reference document, creating a collaborative notebook. Using posts as story starters and of course professional collaboration. There's also the addition of an online message board.
Perhaps the biggest and best know wiki is Wikipedia -an open source encyclopedia that has been constructed by users of the internet.
