Thing 21

I am really scratching my head about this wiki thing. I clicked on many of the wikis I can see their use in collaborative efforts definitely, long distance communication and work - especially if collaboration, etc can take place between classrooms in other cities, states, countries. Some of the wikis showed that (between a class in New Zealand and NY). But one wiki I was surprised not to find was one where teens can share experiences, ways to deal with divorce issues, etc -maybe I missed it, but I went to D for Divorce, and to T (read TeenTalk). With fewer social workers in schools due to cut backs, I thought that a wiki for Teen issues might be useful.
I checked out Teacherknowledge from U of M's school of Education and was disappointed - it enticed me with the word "science" in the one line description. One of the things downloaded on the site was a Dutch site whose applets were supposed to have been useful. I can't imagine kids seeing that and expecting to not be frustrated by it. The language barrier would be too distracting.
I definitely appreciated the wikis for writing stories.