Wikis
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What is a Wiki? Wikipedia (http:en.wikipedia.org) describes a wiki as:
“….a type of web site that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool forx collaborative authoring.”
The wiki provides an asynchronous collaborative tool for students and instructors to foster collaborative learning and greater peer-to-peer and student-to-faculty communication. The wiki’s simple interface makes it a perfect tool to introduce students to the online environment and process of interacting with other students. Wikis can be used as online icebreakers to help students get to know each other and to accelerate the collaborative learning process to produce better learning results.
As technology and interaction becomes a more important component of engaging online learning environments, wikis continue to grow and become increasingly popular and useful tools to facilitate this process. Wiki’s give students more direct access to their content without using a threaded discussion. The progression of learning can be seen through entries and comment entries. Additionally, wikis can be used for each student as an e-portfolio for collection of student work and allowing students to customize their space to show their work.
The powerful group-edit nature of a wiki makes it an especially attractive tool for team activities and collaborative learning exercises. Wikis can be used for collaborative research, peer review, and review commentary by external experts. They can also be used to discuss and mange documents. It is a personal forum for expression but open to collaboration, where students and instructors can express ideas. Wikis are a great way to express ideas and create relationships to pages in and outside of the course environment via hyperlinks and tags.
In ANGEL®, a wiki is treated as just another lesson item, with the same grading options as any other lesson item. The following image shows some of the benefits of the wiki format:
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Letter |
Section name |
Benefit |
A |
Header menu |
Manage each wiki’s content from this toolbar – anyone may edit wiki content. |
B |
Right menu |
A timeline of changes, complete table of contents, and listing of content tags within the wiki. |
C |
Wiki Content |
Wiki content – easy to format, easy to edit |
D |
Comments |
Wiki content supports threaded discussion within each wiki section. |
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