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Avinash Bhagat, Lovely Professional University Unit 14: Collaborating via Blogs and Wikis

Unit 14: Collaborating via Blogs and Wikis Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
14.1 Distinction between Blogs and Wikis

14.2 Evaluating Blogs for Collaboration
14.2.1 Points for Assessment
14.2.2 Features of the Blog to be Evaluated

14.2.3 Criteria for Evaluation
14.3 Evaluating Wikis for Collaboration
14.3.1 Characteristics of Wikis

14.3.2 Points for Evaluation
14.4 Summary
14.5 Keywords

14.6 Review Questions
14.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Distinguish between blogs and wikis
Evaluate blogs for collaboration
Evaluate wikis for collaboration

Introduction

Blogs are essentially primary sources and can provide lively insights and perspectives not
documented by traditional sources. They compare in some ways to a traditional interview, with
the speaker controlling the questions. Ripe for essays and debate, blogs present not only the
traditional two sides of an issue, but the potentially thousands of takes. And those takes take less
time to appear than documents forced through the traditional publishing or peer review process.
Blogs allow scholars and experts written opportunities to loosen their ties and engage in lively
conversation.
A wiki is a website, the content of which can be edited by visitors to the site, allowing users to
easily create and edit pages collaboratively. This technology therefore has the potential to
complement and enhance online collaboration. The simplicity, flexibility and openness of this
technology provides higher education with new opportunities for developing online interaction
in a way which has not been possible before. Moreover wikis can help provide an efficient,
flexible, user-friendly and cost-effective interface for collaboration, knowledge creation and

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