Thing 10

• What did you find interesting about the wiki concept? I like the idea of people interacting on a web page and not just reading it (static). It's more social.
  
• What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki? Good question. Perhaps book recommendations by students/staff would be a start. Maybe develop pathfinders for specific research assignments.
  
• Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format? I support it, if for no other reason than to force feed students to use free online databases such as Academic Search Premier and not just automatically going to Wikipedia or doing a general Google search. Also, there's a lot of garbage out there. Students aren't always so discerning about fact vs. fiction. For example, the New York Times did an article last Sunday (Literacy Debate-Online, R, U Really Reading?) and sites an experiment by the University of Connecticut in which 90% of students thought the North Pacific tree octopus was real (http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/)! This is alarming to say the least.
• Which wiki did you edit? I edited the 23Things On a Stick wiki. It was easy.