Providing
a central location for meaningful information makes referring or gaining
information easy. Wiki’s work by including
members of a group with similar interests.
The members of the group then find resources or information they believe
would benefit the group or are of interest to themselves. The member of the wiki group then copies the
web link and write a short, informative paragraph describing the information
and their name. This allows the other
members to look over the description to decide of the information provided
would be in their interest and consider the website further or rather, more specifically.
This
is a very interesting way of sharing information that I had not known about
previously. The benefits of using a wiki
would be that similar minded people could share information that is relevant to
others in the group, making looking for specific and reliable articles or
websites quicker and easier. The drawback
to wiki’s is that the creator of the wiki must know the recipients to share the
wiki with or invite them to use the wiki, otherwise wikis would be something
that was searched for over a vast internet of information. Another challenge is that only one wiki
participant can be on the site at the same time, making the sharing of
information challenging if another has the same idea at the same time. I could see a grade level of teachers
creating a wiki or a school having a common area for the wiki, thus making it a
school community resource.
Wikis
are an new way of sharing information for me and I will be interested in how
the use of the wiki in our class will play out.
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