Weifang+-+Analysis+and+Reflection

The use of WikiSpaces is far much more efficient than discussion forums or web spaces. WikiSpace, is user-friendly which allows anyone with minimal technological background to participate. When WikiSpace was first introduced into our course, I had no difficulties using it despite the fact that I had never used WikiSpace before. It allows the sharing and updating of knowledge by enabling users to change the content of the page anytime. Before using WikiSpace, the tutorials had a discussion of Wiki Netiquette and Behaviours, some people had fears that the open-editing feature of WikiSpace may cause certain selfish behavior to arise on WikiSpace. However, we were assured that every version of the page will be backed up.

After the journey of the class participating in WikiSpaces, I realized that most of the students are very mature in using the space, and the fears that were once discussed of someone eliminating a whole chunk of what you wrote were very minimal. This proved that the maturity of Internet users have improved and supports this advantage of a creative knowledge-sharing environment.

Everyone that participates in WikiSpaces had a chance to learn something new. In addition, everyone is able to share their opinions by directly changing the content rather than reading a whole list of opinions which some users may ignore (like discussion forums).