A Wannabe Linguist Blog

Welcome back! Have you ever heard of wikis? I think chances are pretty high, for Wikipedia at least. Wikipedia is just one of the thousands sites based on wiki. What’s wiki you ask? It is a technology for collaborative publishing on the interned. Basically, that means that you and any other student may edit any page of the wiki or add videos and pictures there to improve(?) the information that is already given there. As you have probably guessed wikis are well suited for education as the information on pages can be literally anything. As a result, you can organize group work, do research projects, etc… or you can just browse wikis on your favourite series and learn a ton of new information about it instead, that works too.

I can also use Wikiversity as another great example of wikis.  It is a project of Wikimedia Foundation designed to support cooperated learning experience. You can find all sorts of information there and share your own researches. They have two main purposes:

-Create and host a range of free-content, multilingual learning materials/resources, for all age groups in all languages.
-Host scholarly/learning projects and communities that support these materials.
Wikiversity resources include teaching aids, lesson plans, curricula, links to off-site resources, course notes, example and problem sets, computer simulations, reading lists, and other as devised by participants – but do not include final polished textbooks. It also supports many different languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish and others are in beta. And what’s best for us is their motto: “set learning free”.