Queen's: Blog Entry

Queen Umeana
EDT – 5500 ~950 Multimedia Applications
Instructor: Melinda Waffle

There are so many readings out there on this topic. It’s a little bit hard to distinguish because they both service similar purpose. They are tools for posting, editing and managing a collection of hypertext pages that pertains to specific topic. From what I’ve come to understand, blogs displays a set of pages in time order whereas a wiki displays pages as a set of linked pages which at times includes comment made by others permalinks, RSS feeds and other types of notifications. Both a blog and wiki page style of presentation allows edit to be made by individual or a handful of people. Several of the articles I came across and even talked to several people made similar comment which was, they all agreed that blogs allows for conversation and comments between people. Blogs are more or less a journal entry like a diary; instead it’s on the web. An example is businesses are increasingly using wiki’s to allow users of their products to write documentation and the result is better, more comprehensive documentation than a product manager or engineer could write, (Wiki vs. Blog). A way of using these tools is to know that student would not have to go through the obstacles of creating a so called webpages. It’s much easier now. These tools provide ready to use site with simple user interface and the ability to easily add pages, navigate through the logs, and make student’s life less complex and less time trying to develop a website.

It seems as more organizations adopt the wiki for collaboration and information, student will be prepare to use these tools in their careers.

References:

Article I read:

Blog Article:

Riley, Duncan (2003). Is The Art of Rejection Lost? Retrieved June 11, 2007, from

http://www.blogherald.com/

Wiki Article:

Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Canonical, Unknown Ubuntu Community, Retrieved June 11, 2007, from

http://planet.ubuntu.com/

Others articles I read:

Augar, N., Raitman, R., & Zhou, W. (2004). Teaching and Learning Online with wikis. Retrieved June 11

2007, from http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/augar.html