A 'Wiki' is a collaborative sharing tool in which a user or visitor can 'edit, modify, add or remove information' (CQUniversity 2010). A Wiki can be about anything from recipes, to definitions, to quotes from favourite movies. Searching Wikipedia (2010), I discovered that 'Wiki' is a Hawaiian word for 'fast', this comment is unsubstantiated and virtually unable to be referenced however, as any person can access and alter this information at any time, any where in the world.
In accessing the 'Mackay E-Learning' Wiki page, the benefits of this type of ICT technology is evident and may be used in many collaborative learning circumstances. The benefits of utilising this type of technology during group assignments is evident as students are able to access, contribute to and edit the information on the page with ease. This may also be incorporated in the classroom environment for students to work together collboratively and contribute to ideas using ICT.
In University we are taught that Wikipedia is an unreliable source of scholarly information. The apparent ease of accessing and editting information contained on this website makes this recommendation difficult to ignore. The importance of students understanding this is vital as they begin accessing the Internet and researching information using search engines.
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