Wikis and Research

Recently, I used a wiki to work on a group project for class. It worked out really well, all of our thoughts and ideas were together in one place, and it was easy to accomplish a group task over a holiday weekend with no meetings!

So it got me to thinking… what if I created a wiki for my dissertation? I could compile my literature, my research questions, my methodology, all on one wiki, that way my advisers could take a look and comment and watch my progress as I went along. So that is my next brave endeavor into the world of technology- my wiki-tation? disser-wiki? wiki-diss?  Well, the name certainly needs work, but creating the wiki should be easy enough!

FYI: anyone with W&M id can sign up for a wikispace at http://wmwikis.wikispaces.net!

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