Wikis

Previous to starting my studies in the 'Using Computers' unit I had no idea what a Wiki was...Wow have I learnt a lot in the past few weeks or what!?

These editable, collaborative, online documents allow you to create your own website easily and quickly. Wikis can be viewed and editied from any computer, anywhere, anytime by anyone (providing the creator of the wiki page invites you to join their enterage of followers).

Wikis generally focus around one topic and invite others to join in on blogs, adding videos and pictures and so on.

The only downfall I have found with Wikis is their lack of credibility. As these documents can be editied by anyone there is a possibility that some of the infomation contained within a Wiki page is false or misleading. Thus Wiki pages cannot be considered a reliable source of information. Nevertheless they do provide you with interesting topics, comments, links, pictures, videos and alike.

I still have a lot to learn about Wikis but they appear to provide a source of endless opportunities for online document creation and collaborative learning.