Report & Reflection 8 - Wiki vs Google Doc

Hi, I had an amazing learning experience this week, we had a chance to learn about wiki and develop our collaborative skills. Personally I dislike using wiki because of various reasons the content, lack of accuracy, not useful for any academic sources, anyone can add hyperlinks and lists can expand. With all these negative outcomes about wiki, however, there is one good thing that I enjoyed while exploring the collaborative work was that I was able to explore and learned about online teamwork. Donald also mentions “A wiki is a strongly collaborative medium that forces people to be collaborative. More than this, it teaches you to be collaborative within a set of rules, where negotiation, decision - making and eventual agreement are necessary.” another important factors to take into consideration is that exchange each other’s ideas, being able to edit each other’s work, can add files, visuals, search for information regarding a specific topics and Google Docs also has a similar feature. I really like the fact that, everyone can edit each other’s work and add their own inputs. Also in universities we are restricted to reference a Wikipedia, so we really don’t have any benefit from using it. Sometimes I try to use a wiki, but with an enormous amount of hyperlinks I tend to get confused easily.

From the beginning of the term, we had a chance to learn about the nine elements and the benefits it has towards becoming a digital citizen. It is important to have an understanding of Digital Rights and Responsibilities. In that sense, I think it is crucial to understand the four different sub-topics that fall under DRR, first being able to report Cyberbullies, threats, and other inappropriate activities. Second being able to have a secure protection against our privacy information. Third is Freedom of Expression, but still have set limits. Lastly having access to any online materials and have to ensure credit is being reported to that particular source. (Ribble, p.37) I will add this to my PLE because these are important factors to consider to become a Digital Citizen however I will not add Wiki to my PLE because I don’t think it captures the importance of a reliable source.

This week on feedly I had found an amazing article about a Robot named Budgee basically it’s a grocery carrying robot. It will just follow you around and it is responsible for obeying the command of the owner. I thought this a great idea because this will definitely be beneficial for the elderly people, pregnant ladies and people with any disabilities.

Every day is a learning experience for me and my knowledge is improving day by day. I really like the idea of working as group online and share each other’s feedback. Now I know if there is a group presentation or group project we don’t necessarily need to meet up. We can stay where we are and still work online and which will create the same impact as well.