Good looking wiki

I was sent this today (Thanks Tamy!) which has renewed my enthusiasm for wikis (if not SL!)
http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/educationaluses It has convinced me that wikis can look good, so I’ve revisited wikispaces. As well as the basics you’d expect, you can restrict editing to named people, lock pages and use widgets to embed lots of social software stuff – a delicious feed, flickr slideshow, YouTube video etc.

I’m planning on using this, rather than just a del.icio.us list for a future workshop. The idea being that as well as the resources I’m providing / demonstrating it will be a workspace for a hands-on wiki exercise and possibly a resource that gets added to after the event but that might be expecting too much. The only downside I’ve come across so far is the Google ads although they are quite discreet.

I’m also wondering if there is a area of our website that it might suit… for demo purposes if nothing else.

About the Author: Matt Lingard

Learning Technologist at the LSE Centre for Learning Technology

2 Comments

Martin Weller November 7, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Have you seen wetpaint.com also? They are good looking wikis which I’ve started using. I know what you mean – did wikis _have_ to look so bad?
Matt Lingard November 9, 2007 at 1:27 pm

Thanks for flagging up Wetpaint Martin, the name rings a bell but I certainly haven’t seen it for a while. I’ll take a look. The other barrier I need to overcome is not so much a wiki problem but a collaboration one. I think that some people feel uncomfortable editing each others text and there is a tendency to ‘add’ rather than ‘merge’ new content, but perhaps that’s just me!