{"id":200,"date":"2011-07-10T15:14:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T21:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/?p=200"},"modified":"2011-07-11T07:46:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T13:46:37","slug":"reflection-on-a-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/2011\/07\/10\/reflection-on-a-wiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on a Wiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we used a class wiki to discuss challenges and strategies in using social media in classrooms. The experience of creating a wiki compared using the threaded discussions in our LMS was rather enlightening.\u00a0 Some of the things I really liked about the wiki were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Felt like one large class discussion, rather than a whole lot of smaller ones<\/li>\n<li>At first I felt like I needed to put my name behind my contributions, but as time went on, that feeling diminished and I just focused on being a part of the community and the learning process.<\/li>\n<li>Great collaboration opportunity<\/li>\n<li>Easy to edit<\/li>\n<li>Flexible structure allows for organizing group ideas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the challenges in the wiki format were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organization &#8211; it required somebody taking the bull by the horns and setting up a structure (which really helped once it was set up!)<\/li>\n<li>Finding what the new or updated content was since the last time I viewed (figured out the &#8220;watch&#8221; feature a bit too late!)<\/li>\n<li>Working in the timeline &#8211; I had to get my input complete by Friday as I would not have computer access on the weekend, and as not everyone posted earlier in the week, it created a challenge for me to be a part of the finalizing process<\/li>\n<li>Editing &#8211; only one person can edit at a time, which can be a pain when a lot of people are needing to access it<\/li>\n<li>Requires more tech skill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really enjoyed a change from discussions this week, and\u00a0 I appreciated how we could grow each others&#8217; ideas more fluidly in the wiki context.\u00a0 For example, under the &#8220;challenges&#8221;, I simply wrote &#8220;Copyright&#8221;,\u00a0 as I didn&#8217;t have time right then to expand my thoughts, but I wanted to get the idea down.\u00a0 The next time I came back, others had expanded the topic wonderfully!\u00a0 It was easy to come back and edit throughout the week, and I particularly liked the sense of group ownership that was established.\u00a0 A great activity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we used a class wiki to discuss challenges and strategies in using social media in classrooms. The experience of creating a wiki compared using the threaded discussions in our LMS was rather enlightening.\u00a0 Some of the things I really liked about the wiki were: Felt like one large class discussion, rather than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256807],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hwik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}