Wiki's

Wiki's What Are They? Arent They The Same As A Blog? Lets Find Out!!

Wiki's are a webpage on the internet, they are like a blog in many ways in the same way of writing a paragraph, diary entry posted on the internet. In many ways they link to one another through the same style, but have different aspects and applications to a blog. On a blog you write your paragraph and your friends or families can post comments or quotes to complete the package of the blog. With a wiki, friends / family or even class mates at university have the power of editing your information on the subject you have written about- through fixing spelling errors / punctuation or even adding in extra information to the subject you have writen about or even change the information when new information arises in the future. It is a on going webpage of infotmation with people having the power change or add things to the wiki at the click of a button.

I believe it is a great learning tool as it continues building knowledge between students and teachers as they post new information on the site, as it is an on going process of knowledge in a way of building a book on a subject in a hard copy, but in this case creating a wiki page. With students being able to see the updates and further enhance there knowledge and understanding. Example of a great wiki page, further enhancing knowledge and constructing a page: The Korean national school on 21st century learning video clip on you tube, which is located under the moodle information page of Practical Activity: Week 2 - Wiki and Website.

I believe we get more benefit out of a wiki page, as you can construct and change information on the subject and able to build on an existing knowledge base. Whereas i believe a blog is a personal point view of something somebody has written and you can only comment on their point of view. Whereas the wiki page you have the power to improve their information or add in different points of view and is more open to change. With the blog you can only comment or quote and it is a disvantage to the learners with seeing only one point of view-I see you can agree or disagree through posting comments, but then its up to the author of the blog to change their information if they wish too. I personally believe for the 21st century learner,the wiki page is the way to go in assisting and gaining more knowledge for themselves and they are able to build on those skills and further enhance their knowledge through this process.

Please Note: I have created my very own wiki page for this class and at the present moment it is very basic: Link: http://davos-wiki.wikispaces.com/