#wikis and other web 2.0 tools that can support your wiki

Chapter 7 of Stephanie Sandifer's book Wikis for School Leaders is all about how other common web 2.0 tools can be used to help support your school's wiki.  The first thing that they suggested to use to help support and make your wiki easier to use were all things Google (as Dr. Krug would approve of).  She mentioned how easy it was to have multiple people work on one document and also just that it was sometimes more user friendly for people who aren't very good with wikis to just put something in a google document and put that in the wiki.  They also mentioned that if you were to use something such as a google presentation you could embed it into the wiki or in serval wikis and then when you edit the original it will automatically update the versions embedded in the wikis.  It is super easy to use for effective collaboration on a variety of projects.  They also mentioned subscribing to RSS feeds and blogs that can help make your wiki more up to date and efficient.  For those that are really up to date with their technology use the author of the book even suggested things like following other educators on twitter who would be able to provide you with links to helpful resources and give input on ideas.  This chapter was essentially saying that a wiki is meant to be expanded and connected to other forms of web 2.0 which will help it run better and more efficiently.  I personally found this chapter to be helpful because I'm more familiar with the way to implement and use most of the web 2.0 tools that they mentioned it just seemed easier and less intimidating for me to think about implementing in my own classroom one day or even help start it's use in my future school.  Overall this book had a lot of good ideas and it was easy to follow and gain a lot of information from.