Random Ramblings

Recently, I have been working with my former teaching partner’s students on making wikis. These students are extremely bright and only needed a starting point and off they went. While we were working one day, Cynthia wrote a poem concerning her dilemmas with wikis. She agreed to allow me to share:

Ode to a Wiki or My Wiki Web Wart
by Cynthia McFadden

My wiki is ugly
is has very few charms
such as whistles and bells
or attention alarms.

Unorganized, haphazard
without HTML,
I’m embarrassed to reveal
it’s illogical as heck.

It’s all my fault,
I did not attend
offered workshops
designed to amend.

The warts and scabs
are unorganized whim.
When it’s time to manage,
I’m out on a limb.

So why do I continue
to post potpourri
for my kids to sort
so ineffectively?

When the hour is late,
and homework’s not done
students stumble to the wiki wart
where the info’s par none.

Oh, Ugly Web Wiki,
you deserve better than me,
but until I have time
you’re all you can be.

Sigh …..

Until next time ~ Danita

Flickr: Wiki Wiki

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