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Greetings MACUL session attendees! Thanks for visiting!
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In our session on Thursday, March 11, 2010, I spoke about the experience our organization has had with creating a wiki repository for around 200 history teachers in West Michigan. You can view that wiki here.

We spent a great deal of time looking at what the barriers to a wiki are. We touched on the complications of mandating the organic growth of an online community which is by its very definition a user-driven environment. What have your experiences been? What are you apprehensive about if you're going to start a wiki? What solutions do you have? What solutions have you tried?

Here's my vision for this wiki: This wiki exists to offer a forum for MACUL members and their colleagues a place to discuss the synthesis of wiki technology and professional learning networks/communities both formal and informal. This is a place where we can all go to share our experiences and seek assistance. There is no tangible incentive. In a perfect Web 2.0 world, this wiki would grow into a compendium of resources and advice for educators seeking to build vibrant, constructive, and productive wiki environment for students or for professional development. Can you help make that a reality? Think back to the MACUL conference(s) you've attended. Doesn't that knowledge exist right here (or there, as it were)?

I've created a few headings to organize our discussions. Pretty self-explanatory, I think. Just remember...I'm only planting the seed here. If the community sees fit to water the seed, then so be it. If not, then so be it! Let's just hope a hacker doesn't come around with a spray bottle of weed killer!

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