Wiki

Today I became a member of Wikispaces which is a similar program to blogspot.com. However, I found it an incrediably confusing program to use! Despite reading the instructions on “How to create your Wiki”, I still spent 45 minutes attempting to work out how to edit my page. I still have had no luck in working this out, and as a result, if you access my Wiki, at http://www.wikispaces.com/user/my/katepollard, all you will find is a blurb on my profile and that’s it. Whilst I was reading up, about Wiki’s before creating my own, I thought the idea of a Wiki sounded really appealing because Wiki’s seem to be such an effective way of communicating with other people. Others can join onto the Wiki and edit information. This tool would be excellent for collaborative exercises, where members of a group need to organise an activity. Having a group Wiki, would allow the group members to each go online at different times and edit information. However taking into consideration my personal experience in creating a Wiki, I would not implement this tool with primary students in the classroom. I think the technology is too complex and is not user-friendly, and basically, if I can’t work out how to use the program, I have no hope of helping my students to use it.