Blog v Wiki
Blogs and Wikis are a new and innovative way for people to express
themselves or contribute to a larger project by employing new technology. This
new interaction offers many benefits, such as collaboration from the comfort of
your home, anonymity when sought, etc.
Blogs and Wikis are similar in the sense that they are both ways of
people to reach out to other individuals with information and comments. However,
Blogs and Wikis cannot be more different. According to UNAW blogs are the work
of a single author with ‘One-to-many
communication (posts), many-to-one responses (comments)’, while Wiki
can have multiple authors ‘Many-to-many
communication’.
Blogs are presenting the personal viewpoint of an author with optional comments from readers agreeing or challenging the author’s opinion. The author can have many posts in reversed chronological order with
following reflection from followers.
Wiki on the other hand has
many authors and it can be viewed and edited by many authors with the most
recent information displayed first, with the possibility for pages to be reverted. According
to Language Resource Center at Columbia University in wiki the individual
ownership is not as important as the outcome of the joint contribution.
A Wiki application I could
use is to get in contact with other parents from my daughter school in order to
share information regarding homework, trips, sleepovers, etc.
Citation:
“Blogs versus Wikis: Which Should I
Use?” Language
Resource Center, 3 Oct. 2016,
www.lrc.columbia.edu/blogs-versus-wikis-which-should-i-use/.
“Blog, Wiki or Forum - Which Should
You Use?” UNSW
Teaching Staff Gateway,
teaching.unsw.edu.au/assessment-blog-wiki-or-forum-which-should-you-use.
