Sandbox (Thing #20)

I learned something important about wikis playing with SPPL's Learning 2.0 Wiki: it's very easy to fix things if you break them. I accidentally erased all of the Favorite Movie entries, and all I had to do to get them back was delete the revision. Hurray!

Also, I found two ways to deal (at least partially) with the things that bothered me about the wikis I'd seen. You can change the skins to alter the aesthetics to your taste. I liked Qua on PBWiki. You can also add a sidebar, which makes navigating from page to page a little more direct.

Wikis (Thing #19)

Wikis seem great--you can create a website without needing any technical know-how, and unlike a blog, the content can be organized by subject rather than chronologically. They seem ideally suited for subject guides and could fashion as a reasonable intranet. They'd have a leg up on what we currently have in that they can be edited by anyone (within the limitations you set) and are accessible from anywhere. Based on the examples I saw, libraries are already making good use of them. The only things that bother me so far are that they seem uniformly ugly (is there a reason you can't choose from lovely templates as on blogger?) and somewhat awkward to navigate.