New community of teachers

This evening, I watched an amazing video during my course at Uni. It was talking about the creation of a wiki for the teachers of a district in United States to share their ideas. The most interesting thing, in my point of view, is that a lot of other schools, outside the district, are joining their project. The name of this wiki is ''Beyond text book''. By having always new members, this particular tool is helping creating a new community of teachers that we never experienced before. As teachers can share ideas, lesson plans, webquests and so on, it creates a sense of connectiveness among the teachers using the materials but also among the students themselves. They are connected all together by the way that they will probably do the same exercise than other students in the U.S. Having the possibility to work or adapt a LES that another teacher did and then posting it back, for it to be used by others is like to refine a rock and at each step it gets purer to finally become a diamond. I am doing this link because teaching is a bit the same. At first, you work on something that will rarely be version you will present and by doing collaborative work you get your plan or activities way better when it has been worked by other teachers. I think that having this type of wiki should be done by every school boards because at the end that will be the students that will beneficiate from it.