I liked this assignment because it helped me become a little more at ease with wikis. I'm more comfortable with a blog than a wiki because it's similar to standard writing - someone writes, I read it, if I like it, I can choose to respond if I care to. A wiki sets that standard on it's ear and many people can get into the act so it's the loss of control that probably freaks me out.
That being said, wikis are an awesome tool for school. One of our science teachers teaches almost exclusively with wikis, with incredible results. When asking one of her students about how he liked doing assignments on the wiki, he told me he really liked it but, "you actually have to read the stuff, I can't fake it like I used to." Edutopia has an online article about her entitled "Wiki Woman". She posts in her blog "Hurricanemaine", this year, she decided not to pass out a textbook and is using the web and her class wiki for all her teaching and learning.
As for me, I plan to get it in gear and make use of the wiki space I created last year and set it up for students to post book reviews and series title lists. Collaboration and the ability to edit postings are some the best things about wikis.
My favorite wikis from this assignment are Library Success: a best practices wiki, - they have a really cool page called "Library 2.0 in 15 minutes" and the teacherlibrarianwiki,because I love anything to do with Joyce Valenza
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