Up to this course I had never worked on a Wiki program. I have to admit I would not appreciate another Wiki experience. Comparing it to Google Docs or other sharing collaboration programs, I would rate it last. I did investigate another program which I believe works much better. Mistakes and formatting are almost impossible on Wiki. Bringing other sources into the program were also difficult. Our team ended up using google docs and other programs in google for our collaboration. I have an opinion that many of these wiki programs are ten years old in technology use.
Our first use was to get ideas for what we would search and investigate. Nothing seemed to work well. In the middle time, we used more google docs, emails and group talking apps than we did the Wiki.
In the end we transferred documents to Wiki and had a very difficult time with especially formatting references and getting graphics to stay where we put them. We also were unable to use some film and audio programs in the Wiki. Our document is now there, but I would never use that Wiki again.
I would tend to say Wiki did not improve my education or outlook to good use of technology in the classroom. We had to use many other programs to overcome the lack of ovrlap and integration we thought was available on Wiki. This Wiki would not transfer well to other programs or apps.
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