Reflective Blog #3 - Wiki Week

Reflective Blog # 3 – Wiki Week

This week opened my eyes to so much technology.  I created a wiki for recipes.  My thought was to have recipes added, comments on the recipes and any other ideas for recipes.  I thought this would make it easy for the working individuals, while going to school.  We all want our family to get the nutrients from a good meal but don’t always have the time to cook a good meal.  I started by just getting recipes that I use quite often and adding them as a word document to the pages.  I also added links with some good recipes on too.

There are several advantages to wikis but the main ones that I see were as follows:  easy to use and learn, people from anywhere can edit the wiki, and it keeps track of all the changes made and it says it’s easy to change back.  The disadvantages that I see were that it requires internet connection and not everyone has access to the internet yet.  Now since anyone can edit it then it could be vandalized or become disorganized with too many editors.  However, the Digital natives in our earlier article would really like the wiki because it is or can be fast paced and it makes group projects easier and more accessible.  The Digital natives have a hypertext mind and leap around.  The wiki could and would allow for this, while still teaching them.

In exploring the eLearning Tools Wiki, I discovered that this technology world is not as hard as it looks.  I will probably be eating my words on that sentence before the end of this semester but the blogs and wikis are pretty simple to prepare.  I would be interested in exploring YouTube videos.  YouTube is part of this web 2.0 technology adventure and I think that it would be interesting to learn how to upload and share on YouTube.