Planning Lessons the Wiki Way

The Charlottesville, Va., school division is harnessing the efficiency of technology to make scripting lesson plans easier for its teachers. A cadre of city teachers is being trained for the fall to use “wiki” Web sites — sites that can be directly edited by anyone who has access to them. The success of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is maintained by volunteers and revised by almost anyone with Internet access, has sparked an interest in fostering open source online communities that focus on the free sharing of ideas.