NeighborhoodWiki

I don't think that this website is very user friendly. I find that you have to be moderately tech savvy in order to navigate through this website and get to the useful information. Once I was able to find the information on the NeighborhoodWiki website, I found that it was a nice way to incorporate interesting information posted by students. For example, I clicked on articles and found a posting related to skin. As a Science teacher, I was interested as to what students would have written about skin. I found the information to be quite interesting. A student posted that "Skin covers organs and items in bodies. In a lifetime a human sheds more than 18kg. Every minute about 35,000 skin cells fall from the body." (Retrieved from "http://theneighborhoodschool.org/wiki/index.php?title=Skin) This is information that others can use for projects and reports. However, it is not accurate and maybe could be used as an assessment tool. I think that with easier navigation this Wiki website would be a very useful tool and could be a model for other Wiki's to be incorporated into academic classes.