Wikis in the Classroom

Wikis could be useful in the classroom for working on any type of project to which the whole class could contribute.

The largest limitation would be that students may only be able to contribute one at a time. That would be a problem if a student's only opportunity to have access was during classroom time. Is that student missing out on what else is going on in class that day or is everyone just sitting and waiting for their turn.

The largest advantage that I recognize would be to group work assignments that students worked on outside of class if they had computer access available. That way each student in the group could more directly contribute to the final project, rather than simply subdividing the work into sections.