Here, I am going to point out that, besides wikipedia, there are also many useful online wiki pages can be used to facilitate our teaching and learning:
Like PBworks,
it is a “secure online workspace” for users to create, share, contribute to their own or others contents. It is easy to sign in and easy to build a group. So for collaborative projects, it’s a good platform for both teachers and students to contribute on. And, with each student has a unique login and password, you can easily know who made what change. When you need to assess the contribution from students, it could be a good criterion of judgement.
Comparing its editing function with moodle or other discussion forum and blogs, the obvious difference is these wiki pages can be re-edited or modified by any person. And, “generally, wikis have a history function, which allows previous versions to be examined, and a rollback function, which restores previous versions.” So in this aspect, I think wiki is more open access and collaboration-welcome.
(Azalea)
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(Azalea)There are several descriptions can clearly reflect the key functions of wiki:
ReplyDelete“wiki is a freely expandable collection of interlinked Web pages, a hypertext system for storing and modifying information – a database, where each page is easily edited by any user with a forms-capable Web browser client” (Leuf and Cunningham, 2001a)
“wiki is a webpage or set of webpages that can be easily edited by anyone who is allowed access.” (Ebersbach et al., 2006).
“wiki can be a collaborative tool that facilitates the production of a group work.” (Paul Anderson)
From these descriptions, the key functions of wiki can be summarized as below:
- an easy-to-use online editing tool
- a community-owned and operated Web site
- a source of information and knowledge
(Azalea)For facilitating teaching and learning, "a wiki is a type of groupware that supports asynchronous communications across distances. Such groupware can be used to establish virtual learning spaces, or environments, that facilitate collaboration across time, interruptions, and distance." (Joshua L Mindel, Sameer Verma, 2006)
ReplyDeleteresource from the journey - Communications of the Association for Information Systems, (Volume 18, 2006), 1-23,"WIKIS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING"
I love this resource you provided, Azalea. I've registered in PBworks and tried the major functions available there. Good example of web using Wiki for collabrating learning and teaching.
ReplyDeleteI have used PBworks. I found it is quite user friendly. Teachers could uploaded their materials such as embed links and share some learning objects.
ReplyDeleteI think PBworks could be easily applied on education. Like just create one folder for each class or subject. Digital generation will like this feature.
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