Wikis

We have been investigating whether wikis could be useful for us, initially as a department but eventually spread across the whole school.

Wikis are best known in Wikipedia, and the concept involves lots of pages which anyone can edit, and which are all cross-linked to each other. They can work really well for presenting resources as well as managing collaboration between people who are not in face-to-face contact. Although we are all in a relatively small site, any teacher will tell you that you don't always get time to see your colleagues from day to day, and this is doubly true in a music department!

We're going to install Mediawiki in school and see what we can do with it. In the end, I wonder whether a wiki system could end up as the best means of doing what we are currently trying to do with Simply Click? An RCT-wide wiki system could end up as a huge resource, both for collecting knowledge and for collaborating across the whole of the authority, opening up new means of communication between teachers, as well as between us and the other areas of RCT.