WIKI'S

Wiki's as I understand them provide web publishing opportunities that are either individual or collaborative, and it offers non-technical people to add to and alter the content. I understand that the one who starts the wiki can choose to have it completley closed to non members or open to everyone. If I were to use this software in my classroom, I would have it open to only the classroom students, before opening it to anybody, so that they can enter their own learnings onto it, working collaborativley as a class, before actually making their comments. The wiki would relate to the Learning Engagement Theory in the way that the students would be engaged in meaningful learning activities through interaction with others on a worthwhile task. (Shneiderman, 1994, 1998: Shneiderman et al, 1995: Kearsley, 1997). I find this software a bit challenging to use as compared to blogs. But can also see the benifits in the way that the students can use it as a group project, where each student can make changes or add to it.