I would like to welcome Kara Whittingham as Saikore's Education Consultant. Kara is a highly experienced educator who has spent time working with children, adolescents and adults. For the past 10 years Kara has been working as a teacher at TAFE, and in recent years she has been using wikis to enhance collaboration between students, teachers, and college departments.  Kara has been setting up wikis:

• for classroom use, as a teaching and learning tool;

• as a space where teachers who share a class can collaborate on the development of class resources and assessments;
• as a space for teacher's administration of  their department/section.

Kara has become an evangelist for the use of wikis in education, presenting last year at TAFE's ICVET Conference, the Department of Education and Training's Connected Learning Conference, TAFE's ACCESS Conference, and at Sydney Institute of Technology's lunchtime on-line Hot Topic Conversations, talking to teachers about how they can use wikis in their teaching and administration.  Kara was also selected to be a part of a team to mentor teachers in the use of wikis at Randwick College of TAFE in 2007.

In 2008 Kara is continuing her work with TAFE teachers and students, and she has started to work with primary schools to develop the use of wikis in primary education.

You can read some of Kara's thoughts on wikis and eduation in her Saikore blog.