Thoughts on Wikis

Just as most people in my generation have heard of wikipedia, it was nothing new to me. However, what I had never realized is that wikipedia is full of "wikis" and that there are all sorts of "wikis" out there. The thought just had never occurred to me. So when we started learning about them in the class and eventually creating them, I learned a lot of new information about this technology. I think they are very similar to blogging, though, unless there is a clear subject to input information about. If I were to do wikis in a high school, I would have them do the research outside of the internet first, or using electronic journals and then eventually gathering them into a blog. I found it far too easy to google my subject and then just use that information.
I think students would enjoy making a specialized wiki on a specific topic and then formatting their own wiki--so hopefully I will be able to play with that in the classroom one day.