TLE 6: Using Wiki

TLE 6: Using Wiki

I. Objective: Define what ICT is. Identify the benefits of ICT. Define what Wiki is. Identify different Wiki sites Give the uses of Wiki

                              

                                  Show the steps in creating a wiki

II. Content

Information and communications technology has provided society with a huge range of new communication capabilities, competence, and experiences. It allows people in different locations to communicate in real-time through the use of technologies such as instant messaging, blogging, chatting, and audio-video conferencing and the like.

Benefits of Technology to Enterprises

1. Efficient Management and Increase Productivity

Technology can improve management efficiency in terms od monitoring, planning, accountancy, stock control, inventory, and, thereby, increase productivity.

2. Increased Collaboration

Technology facilitates the exchange of ideas and designs, saves time, energy, and resources, and allows increased collaboration among people in business resulting in greater output.

3. Increased Communication

Technology allows real time communication across continents and time zones. It facilitates better communication and exchange of information between clients and providers with the use of email, social media, blogs, and websites.

4. Better Customer Satisfaction

Technology allows for better management, recovery, recording, and reporting of clientele data and information. Information technology helps build and maintain a system for managing customer data.

Some of the popular online tools that can be used for business today include the following:

·         Wiki - a wiki is a website that allows internet users to contribute, delete, make changes, or, correct information on the content by signing up.

·         Blog Site - is a kind of website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and hyperlinks provided by the writer or contributor. A user can create a blog by making a page from a website that supports blogging and update it. A blogger is the person who maintains a blog site.

·         Email - is short for electronic mail. It is an electronic message sent from one device to another. Through email, a person can send and receive personal and business-related messages with attachments, such as images and documents.

·         Teleconference - is a type of meeting involving three or more people in different locations by using computer networks capable of transmitting audio and video data.

WIKI

Wiki is a web application that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. Wiki is different from a blog since wiki allows users to add, edit or delete content that is posted on the website while blog does not allow others to modify the original material posted.

The term wiki comes from the word wikiwiki which means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunningham in 1995.

The most popular wiki is the Wikipedia. It is a free, open content online encyclopedia where registered users can publish an article and anybody can edit it.

Examples of classroom wikis are 7 th Grade Math, Making it Real, Studying Societies and others.