EDIT 654- Module 2 continued.. Research Activity 2- WikiHow

Wikipedia dominates the wiki search process, so it was hard to dig-up wikis that weren't just Wikipedia posts.  Using google to search for wikis on various topics, I had to go to page four our five of the results to get past the Wikipedia results.  After playing around with some different search terms, I came across wikiHow.com.  The wikiHow.com site is a comprehensive collection of wikis on various subjects that involve some sort of skill or instruction.  It's kind of like the "For Dummies" books put into a wiki format.  I thought this wiki was pretty awesome, although some of the posts are a little more subjective.  For example, one of the "how to's" located on the home page is the time of this writing is "How to Live Happily Ever After", if there was a direct formula for that and it only involved following a few quick steps, the world would be a much better place.  The more realistic posts are very informative though and the website breaks things up into several categories to make finding the appropriate post easy.  For example, searching "How to breed ghost shrimp" will take you directly to the wikiHow someone created for how to breed ghost shrimp.  Many of the wikiHow posts also come equipped with pictures to illustrate the "how to" process.  I think this has the potential to be a very useful tool, and it could even be a fun challenge for students to create a wikiHow on a process they have mastered.