The Wikis

Few days ago I thought the only Wiki that existed was Wikipedia. I was completely unaware of everything about wikis, apart from Wikipedia, that is why this assignment was a complete challenge for me, and I liked it. I was so exited creating my wiki, searching for information and discovering the different applications of this useful web 2.0, a first I thought that it was very similar to Google doc, but then I realized that it’s very different. The wikis have so many applications in different fields like education and labor; wikis are collaborative tools that allow you share your work with others people and allow them to collaborate with you. It was fun creating my Wiki page once I figured out how to handle it.

Wiki in the School:

As an educational tool wikis are very useful, we saw an example of that in the video ‘Using PBWorks Wikis in the Classroom’  we could see how a  teacher uses wikis to assign tasks to students, motivate them to collaborate and participate. Some of the functions that the different actors of education can realize using wikis are:

Teachers	Learners	School
Schedules, resources, research, content, links, consultations, courses.	Portfolio, research, links, summaries, notes, individual texts, collaborative texts, opinions, knowledge sharing, consultation.	Departments, magazines, resources, curricula.

An idea for an activity we might do with learners that would involve the use of a wiki can be:  create a collaborative text, where they compose a poem for the literature class. This assignment is designed for a group of about fifteen students and each one must collaborate with ideas. They should write at least 400 words, these tasks Promotes the group collaboration.

Wiki in my life:

           

The video ‘Wikis in Plain English’ showed us an interesting and very simple way for using wikis. A simple thing like creating a list is something that you can do in a wiki. But the interesting part is that you can create that list in collaboration with your friends far away or people all over the world.

Wiki in the work:

           

You can use wikis at work to:

- To collectively create a ‘welcome kit’.

-Write rules.

- Share information on company products.

- Collaborative space to assess new products.

- Meeting Agenda.

- Customer Service.

You should go and see my Wiki HERE.