Thing #16 & 17 Wiki Wonderland

Sure, wikis have their downfalls, but overall I think they're a wonderful thing. Last October, while flying on Southwest Airlines, I read an article in their in-flight magazine that featured a discussion between the president of Encyclopedia Britannica and the founder of Wikipedia. (I wish I could access that article now, but SWA doesn't offer a "search" feature on their magazine's website... the nerve!) Anyway, the debate between these two men was a great example of "Learning 1.0" and "Learning 2.0", and I must say that Britannica came down very hard on the side of intellectual elitism. Anyway, I think that a classroom wiki would be fabulous, in that it would facilitate the "community of scholars" approach to which I aspire. I would just need to hold some sway over the content... guess I'm not ready to be completely democratic!