Monday, March 2, 2009

Wikis

It is interesting that wiki has two sides of advantage and disadvantage within one character-collaboration. Wiki is a good tool for quick collaboration, but it does not guarantee the accuracy of information because it is edited by anonymous.
On the other hand, I liked PB Wiki. I like the improved tools for controlling distributions. It is managed by certain groups of people who are officilly invited to the group. PB Wiki might be used for 2nd language learning as an on-line activity in reading and writing.
Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. I basically agree with them. The information which has uncertain features should not be used for academic purposes, but I would allow students to look it up as an unofficial source. As Wikipedia is a work of collaboration, it must have included some useful information in it even though "determination of values" is an our job.

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