The chapter I looked at today talked about how to sustain your wiki once you have created it for a class. I think that this is a very practical thing to talk about especially for teachers because often times we can get that initial drive needed to create something online, but once it is time for us to actually go about managing it's upkeep it is a completely different story. In this chapter the author also included a table and a rubric of sort that helps educators not only evaluate the level of their wiki, but also what it's use will be. The author also includes different facts or indicators of various levels and it provides you with ideas of how to become better or gain more skills in the art of maintaining a wiki or broader your wikis use. I think that this book would be a great resource for me to use as someone who enjoys the uses and ways technologies can be utilized in your classroom, but I am not the most technologically savvy person and I'm not one who will really go out and look for ways to become better at utilizing it. I know that this book and rubric would be something very helpful in helping me become a more effective utilizer of the technologies that are available.
It is clear to me that the author of this book took time to actually develop their ideas and that is a mark of someone who knows what they're talking about. I think it is great that they have this resource available for teachers to use and it would be something that I would very highly recommend for people who want to become better at using wikis, but who may not necessarily have the time to do the research and dive deeper into the subject matter on their own time.
This was done from Ch.6 in the book Wikis for School Leaders by Stephanie D. Sandifer
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