What's a wiki???

Before class I had heard of Wikipedia & thought it was pretty cool, then heard not to trust it because anyone could create or change a definition or explanation. So I searched wiki on Wikipedia & it said:

Wiki is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified mark up language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and Knowledge Management systems.

"Wiki" (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast". "Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is," but this is a backronym.

I learned by watching the Michael Wesch videos and our week 7 discussion posts to look under the discussion tabl to assist in validating the content. There is an old chinese proverb that says that not One person is as smart as Everyone.

Wikispaces are a great resource for instructors to get the contribution of all of their students to collaborate on a given topic. Check out Michael Wesch's class website on netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com/wesch#Digital_Ethnography

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EDTC614 - What did I learn?

I approach every class I teach by posing the WIIFM question on behalf of my students. To be completely honest, the class on Integrating Technology into the Curriculum (EDTC614) was not my first choice to take in Week 2 of Fall 2008 semester. I actually signed up for Performance Improvement, but the class was cancelled and I knew little about the GIS process. Both of these classes are in my electives section of my major of Instructional Technology. Before this class I had never taken an online course & really didn't know what to expect. So, I was pretty open to the WIIFM question. I felt it would be kind of cool to learn some new software that I could impress my friends and boss with. I expected to possibly write some papers & learn how to use some web based training.

Early into the class I realized that this course would far exceed my expectations and it would open my eyes to Web 2.0. To be honest, I had never even heard the term before our instructor, Alison Saylor introduced it to us. Before I knew it, I was learning about online applications including voicethread (check out Doug's awesome voicethread final project: http://voicethread.com/#q.b298759.i1573758), Zoho, sliderocket, google docs..... I started watching YouTube & realized it was a great resource for learning, not just videos of kids screwing around.

I on the board of directors for the Pikes Peak Chapter for the American Society for Training and Development & we have already integrated sliderocket to our monthly meeting notices (http://app.sliderocket.com/app/FullPlayer.aspx?id=20D2D12E-0C90-D3EF-FE88-7313C275FA9A) and are now posting the board meeting minutes on google docs. I have even posted my resume on google docs. I have also created two websites since I started this class: http://home.comcast.net/~chuch/site/; http://sites.google.com/site/claimsadjusting101/

Now, I created my own blog & will soon be posting a facebook &/or linkedin account along with posting some videos on YouTube. I recently got some video editing software and signed up for Alison's class in the Spring with Design and Development of Web Based Learning.

So, what were your expectations? How do you approach learning?