What are the differences between Wikis, Blogs and Websites?
According to Meg Hourihan, "Blog posts are short, informal, sometimes controversial, and sometimes deeply personal, no matter what topic they approach... Blogging is something defined by format and process, not by content."
In my opinion, blogging is more focused on a persons opinion of something that may be backed up by evidence of things others have said. A blog is more of a journal than a factual document.
Wikis may be more of use than blogs when it comes to group work however wikis can be edited by anyone and therefore the information in them may not be as reliable.
Wikis are pages that encourage people to include their own information or sources in the content of something that they have read but are more the structure of a website than of a blog.
Websites are like wikis in their structure however they can only be edited by the author. Websites, unlike blogs and wikis, are often designed to promote things (either event or objects) or to provide people with specific information about a certain content. Websites are not normally used for writing journals but are more factual with a number of resources to back up the information.
Although these three IT tools are Web 2.0 tools, they are all very different and used for multiple purposes.
Meg Hourihan, "What We’re Doing When We Blog," O’Reilly Web Devcenter, June 13, 2002, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/13/megnut.html.
Some interesting thoughts here. I am interested to know what purposes in particular you could see each of these web 2.0 tools being used for in the classroom? And which tools of the three do you think is most useful?
ReplyDeleteHi Miss C,
ReplyDeleteI believe that in the Japanese classroom any of the three web tools mentioned above could be used for students to write reflections about knowledge that they have learnt about Japan/the Japanese culture. Or as areas to write information about Australia in order to inform Japanese students about Australia.
Students could also use these tools as research items to find out their own information about Japan and the culture.
I think that in cases of research, websites may be of more use but in cases of reflections, blogs would be more useful for the students.
Thank you for your comment.
Naomi