Using Wikis with Student Research Projects and Portfolios | ELTWorldOnline.com. AbstractA wiki is a powerful, free Internet tool that allows users to quickly create web pages organized into websites without special training. The web page editing screen has recognizable formatting tools. Although these tools are limited, wikis have a number of exceptional features that enhance web page creation for educational use, both individually and collaboratively. This article begins with an introduction of some key features of Wikispaces and then looks at how wikis are implemented in the ESL classroom. Examples of student assignments such as research projects and portfolios using Wikispaces demonstrate that wikis enhance collaborative work in project-based learning, allowing students to practice critical researching and writing skills in pairs and small groups.
View PDF version Introduction The World Wide Web has available applications and services that allow users to easily post original content. “Wiki” is the short form of the Hawaiian phrase “wiki wiki,” which means fast. JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. Introduction Technology is continually evolving. Today’s Web is nothing like the original version. The evolution of social software has allowed people to go beyond just reading static web pages and listservs to engaging in more interactive chat rooms and web pages.
Today’s technologically savvy college students are well aware of social software as they use My Space, FaceBook, Wikipedia, and blogs. Now professors at universities are trying to incorporate these new versions of social software into their classrooms to meet the needs of the 21 st Century Learner. Literature Survey Web 2.0 Social software encompasses the applications that enable social connections, group interactions, collaboration in Web spaces, and online information exchange. Wikis as part of Web 2.0 This article will focus on the use of the wiki. Howe (2006-2007) further categorizes the types of processes within the Web 2.0 technologies such as the wiki as varying modes of interaction with knowledge.
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