![]() ![]() ![]() Comparing both tools, users will immediately see differences which define their distinctive features. Whereas blogs have already become familiar in the pedagogical arena, wikis are still opening their way up among EFL teachers. Surprisingly enough, and despite personal and public predictions on the ill-use and abuse of wikis due to the unlimited access and participation of any and all Internet users, wikis are keeping their identity as the most collaborative, shareable and richest tool in the cyberspace. Convergent – Duplication can be discouraged or removed by finding and citing similar or related content.Observable – Activity within the site can be watched and reviewed by any other visitor to the site.Tolerant – Interpretable (even if undesirable) behaviour is preferred to error messages.Precise – Pages will be titled with sufficient precision to avoid most name clashes, typically by forming noun phrases.Unified – Page names will be drawn from a flat space so that no additional context is required to interpret them.Overt – The formatted (and printed) output will suggest the input required to reproduce it.Universal – The mechanisms of editing and organizing are the same as those of writing so that any writer is automatically an editor and organizer.Mundane – A small number of (irregular) text conventions will provide access to the most useful page mark-up.Organic – The structure and text content of the site are open to editing and evolution.Incremental – Pages can cite other pages, including pages that have not been written yet.Open – Should a page be found to be incomplete or poorly organized, any reader can edit it as they see fit.According to Cunningham, Wikis should be: So the status quo for a wiki is always partially organized (Cunningham, 2003)Ĭunningham made a detailed list of WikiDesign Principles, which established the foundations of a wiki, and which all wiki writers should bear in mind to keep this wealthy tool a safe, valuable resource not only for teachers worldwide, but for all collaborative types of work. But for every hour spent organizing, two more hours are spent adding new material. “A wiki is always in the process of being organized. He named the site after a chain of buses in Hawaii (Wiki means “quick” in Hawaiian).”My specific purpose for the first wiki was to create an environment where we might link together each other’s experience to discover the pattern language of programming.” The first wiki creator, Ward Cunningham, used the word “wiki” to describe the collaborative tool he developed.
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