I've learnt of yet another new term (and excellent ICT) in this course - WIKI.
The term WIKI is derived from the Hawaiian word for quick: "wiki-wiki" (Richardson, 2006). WIKIs are a collection of freely expandable webpages, where visitors and collaborators write, re-write, edit, un-edit and publish work on the web (Fountain, 2005; Richardson, 2006). The beauty of WIKIs is that they can be accessed and edited by anyone, anytime, from anywhere in the world, and are designed to be “…a shared repository of knowledge with the knowledge base growing over time” (Goodwin-Jones, 2003). It is important to note that access and/ or editing rights can be available only to members of the WIKI or alternatively the WIKI can be open to all (as in the case of WIKIpedia).
Like blogs, WIKIs are created and maintained using free (non-technical) online publishing software located on a server. In comparison to blogs however, WIKIs provide more opportunities for site development, student collaboration and interaction (Pearce & Bass, 2008).
The most well known WIKI is WIKIpedia – a free online encyclopaedia. Anyone, wherever they are in the world, can create and edit content on the WIKIpedia WIKI site.
The vision of WIKIpedia founder, Jimmy Wales, to; create and distribute an extensive, high quality, free encyclopaedia to everyone on the planet, astounds me...
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.”
Jimmy Wales, Founder of WIKIpedia
(Wales, 2004)
(Wales, 2004)
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