Wiki's are they valuable?

Hello again all those that decide to read my chatterings on this Blog. This time around I have a few comments and a few experiences to share on my recent technological adventures and not only in relation to the Wiki space we have been required to add our comments to. Last week was my first attempt to join the conversation on the controversial topic of mobile phone use in a classroom. After reading through the instructions on how to contribute (which I thought I understood) I proceeded to tap the edit button and spew forth my opinions. After arriving at a point where I thought I had was ok to post, I hit the save button. Nothing. Just a frozen screen. So after a slight heart murmur, I reloaded the page and waited... waited... waited... Curses began to role off my tongue. Then Mozilla decided to let me know it was 'embarrassed' and that it had 'crashed'. Annoyed, I restarted and continued to follow the onscreen prompts to retain the text I had 'lost'. Successfully, I returned to where I had left the screen before all of the shenanigans, so I clicked on save again. Nothing. Same as before. I attempted this twice more each time becoming greener (a hulk reference) so due to my frustration I decided to do other work.

And low and behold, my stupid computer kept on crashing or not working or telling me that adobe had crashed and... and... and...
So I set forth to attempt to fix this by running update checks, virus scans, problem detection software etc.

After a few days and lots of 'man hours' put into attempting to fix this wonderful tool called technology, I am pleased to say it is working better. Not fixed, just better. So I thought I'd come back to the Wiki requirement part of week 2. Again it asked if I'd like to recover my previous work, so I said 'yes' of course. Same thing happened so I decided to start again to see if that worked. Eventually it seems like I have succeeded! Amazed? I know I am. Upon reflection, I'd say it has not been a pleasant experience attempting to contribute to such a simple thing as writing on a blog.

On a positive note, there were some great posts that got me thinking quite a bit. So I think the use of a Wiki for collaborative learning could be beneficial for some groups and activities. So I think if everything goes right (UTOPIA!) then it could be used in an engaging and insightful fashion.