Alan Levine, whose cogdogblog is always hipdeep in cutting edge technology applications for higher ed, asks the question:Where the Wikis Are or Where Are the Wikis?.
Indeed. Blogs are hot now, but wikis are still a hard sell. This is especially true in the K-12 world where everyone imagines that kids will revert to Lord-of-the-Flies savagery when given the chance to edit everything. As I’ve bloviated previously, having a cool technology isn’t enough. It has to be embedded in a learning structure that makes sense and wrapped a task that couldn’t be accomplished easily any other way.
Wiki-based WebQuests are just one possibility. Shelly Peretz has already taken that ball and run with it by creating APBioWikiWebQuest. Are there other WikiWebQuests? Other entirely different applications that carry their weight in education? This is an interesting problem to work on.