WIKIs

Hello bloggers,

I often visit Wikipedia to have a look other people's work for my learning. But I could not image that it has come my turn to establish own Wiki page.

The concepts of WIKIs are simple, handy and effective, especially collaborating with group of people. I like the expression, " What You See Is What You Get". Wikis' system and the outcome is just fit it. That could link to the engagement learning's concept of Relate-Create then Donate (Kearsly & Shneiderman, 1998). We just need to visit the same site of Wiki to meet our members at the same page to share our ideas; Relate, adding and sharing ideas, modifying them; Create. Then finally, we complete the task, or decide what we do without actually meet with all of the members. I believe it will be more utilized because it will save our time, and also we can take time to think about some suggestion to others.

I will use Wikis as a learning tools for group activity among my students. I will choose one leader for each group to maintain the activity. While students are working on the activity; sharing, adding and modifying their thoughts and ideas, I sometimes visit a leader of each group's page and see how it goes. Then if they need, I will make a suggestion on the web page.
Before I use it with my students, I do need to explore more in Wikis world because I have not found all the functions of it.

Regards,

Shiho

Reference

Central Queensland University. (2009). Wikis. Retrieved on August 17, 2009, from, http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=671

Kearsly, G & Shneiderman, B. (1998). Engagement theory: a framework for technology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved on August 1, 2009, from, http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm