I remember reading a post by Joyce Valenza about using a wiki for pathfinders — “Ten Reasons Why Your Next Pathfinder should be a Wiki” and decided to try it this year.
Our iTrt and I had tried various methods to standardize pathfinders — we both write them and bounce them back and forth for suggestions. We had the most success using Macromedia’s Contribute, which handled rights for saving and editing and made sure neither one of us overwrote what the other had done, but it still felt clunky. A wiki has worked well this year. For some assignments we have even had students add resources. It can be updated easily and quickly and now that we have a standard format, easy to create.
Our pathfinders are linked from the library home page out you can check out THMS pathfinders directly. I do have to credit Lori Lineweaver for using her knowledge of html to help with the formatting.
