Web 2.0=Wikis
Wikis have several educational benefits to teachers and students. They are becoming more and more popular. It is great for collaborative learning and exploration. Students can easily create simple websites, without learning HTML code, and extensive web design. The wiki provides a ready to use site with a simple user interface, ability to easily add pages, and simple navigation structure. This allows students to spend more time developing the content of the site, instead of trying to learn how to make one. The simplicity of the wiki syntax, or language for formatting text, inserting images and creating links, means students spend less time trying to figure out how to make the site do what they want. As more organizations adopt the wiki for collaboration & information, students will be well prepared to use it in their careers.
A wiki makes it easy for students to write, revise and submit as assignment, since all three activities can take place in the wiki. A student can be given a wiki page to develop a term paper, and might start by tracking their background research. This allows the teacher, and peers, to see what they’re using, help them if they’re off track, suggest other resources, or even get ideas based on what others find useful. Next, the student can draft the paper in the wiki, taking advantage of the wiki’s automatic revision history that saves a before & after version of the document each time s/he makes changes. This allows the teacher and peers to see the evolution of the paper over time, and continually comment on it, rather than offering comments only on the final draft. When the student completes the final draft, the teacher and peers can read it on the wiki, and offer feed-back.
Students are exciting about learning these days because of wonderful resources like wikis.
@Patricia, before my Fullsail experience the only wiki that I heard about was wikipedia. I've used it a few times but then I heard that it was not accurate because people were allowed to put whatever they wanted on wikipedia. But since this program I've learned otherwise. It is a great tool to use in education especially with the writing process. Thanks for the additional information.
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