Wiki is a great collaboration tool to create a group project in which the participants can easily modify the content and structure of the site without learning HTML code. According to Al Shareef (2016) “Wiki is one of the easiest and the most effective Web-based collaboration tool”. This is a powerful platform for collaboration and teamwork among members, one of the essential skills for the 21st century learner. The tools are very useful in group projects that need cooperation and editing. In a recent study, Sun and Qiu (2014) found that learners admired wiki for enhancing their motivation and the group achieved much more in terms of performance outcomes.
This is my first time to use Wiki and one of the hardest part is to find a good Wiki platform to host our Wiki page. There are many available Wiki sites to choose from but most of them are either too complicated to use or, we need to pay a significant amount of money in order to use the tools and publish the site. After several days of searching, our group came across a site called “Wikidot”, a place to build wiki-based websites. Users can easily use Wikidot to publish content, share documents, collaborate with friends, and create a place for your community. This is the perfect tool that we need in order to start with our group Wiki, so we decided to use it and made an outline for the Wiki Literature Review Assignment. We then divided the tasks of our team members to focus on a certain part of the Literature Review that he or she is convenient to work on. In my case, I volunteered to work on Part 1- Introduction and Definition of Terms. All the members of our team can also edit and modify any part of the Wiki that needs to be improved. Once we are done with our assigned topic, we can help improve other parts of the Wiki such as adding graphics, video links, and formatting it to make it look professional and appealing to the readers. What I really love about using Wiki is that it encourages collaboration among our group members. The basic significance of Wiki is enhancing cooperative work and sharing ideas. Cooperation with group members ensure that each will get help to create a successful work in a team, providing an opportunity to bring their experience and skills for getting improved outcomes. As part of our collaborative work, we also used group emails to comment on each other`s work, give suggestions for improvement, and give encouragement to each other. Since many members are editing the Wiki page, open communication is an essential part of the task. Members of the group should communicate constantly in order to keep track of the document changes and come up with the best results. With Wiki collaborative work, it made me excited every time I see the contributions made by other members of my group, it just made the task easier with many people editing the contents of the page. Wiki enhances and supports the common and collaborative work among members in our group. It teaches me to respect the ideas of my team mates and understand the importance of teamwork and collaboration. As a team, all members of the group work together constructively in order to achieve the desired goal. Collaborative learning is indeed a powerful tool to help members share ideas at the same time, share comments and suggestions to improve the contents and quality of the project. References Al-Shareef, S. Y., & Al-Qarni, R. A. (2016). The Effectiveness of Using Teacher-Teacher Wikis in Collaborative Lesson Planning and Its impact on Teacher’s Classroom Performance. English Language Teaching, 9(4), 186. doi:10.5539/elt.v9n4p186. Sun, Z., & Qiu, X. (2014). Evaluating the use of wikis for EFL: a case study of an undergraduate English writing course in China. International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 13(1), 314.
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