Does anyone really ask that question anymore, or does everyone just go straight to Google, no questions asked?

In the instance of the class assignment to find educational use of wikis, I decided to Wikipedia instead of Google. (Yep. I’m using nouns as verbs here.) At the bottom of the article on Murder, Madness and Mayhem and I found this link to Wikipedia school and university projects. There are 72 entries where Wikipedia (as a educational repository wiki) is being used in an educational setting.

Since there were so many links on the page, I decided to close my eyes and just click. I figured this method was scientific enough of a random sample to test out how a wiki was being used in education. The link I clicked was ITESM Campus Toluca. On the right hand side of this wiki page, I clicked on the navigation bar titled “Wiki Projects” and three more links appeared. I clicked on the last link titled “Mexico Stubs” and found a Wikipedia page dedicated to creating and expanding sub-categories related to Mexico. Hmmmmmm….

My task, besides researching on the use of wikis, is to write about what I found particularly interesting in my search, and what I would suggest as extensions or enhancements to the use of the wiki in question. The article just was there to help out in the categorization and discovery of content for Mexico. (At this point I think I will Google “educational use of wikis” instead of Wkipedia the phrase.)

I decided to go into the Google pages a bit after entering the search term and I found Peggy’s page. Peggy has a list of bookmarks to categories such as

Wiki in a K-12 classroom – WikEd (links to Wikipedia)
WikiEducator (work on building open education resources [OERs] on how to create OERs)
educationalwikis » Articles and Resources

I found this last site to contain many links to top resources. There are videos, podcasts and discussion forums all centered around using wikis for education. Definitely the answer is to Google AND Wikipedia for a list of resources.