In this post resource I am evaluating is Natalie Laderas-Kilkenny (2008) Using WetPaint to Create A Course Wiki , Design for Learning
Natalie Laderas-Kilkenny works as an instructional designer and she has written this post about the use of a wiki to help students learn.
There is a good overview of the reasons why a wiki might be a good environment for students to use for their learning. There is a particular emphasis on collaboration between students and an interesting set of tips on how to keep students interested and willing to actively use the wiki for their learning.
It suggests that many of the thing that we may want to do on-line to enable students to learn might be easily done on a wiki and although this may be true the article does not really investigate the possible issues (apart from participation) there might be with using a wiki and whether other technologies might do the job better. Although there is a suggestion that a wiki (possibly because of it’s open structure) can be over complicated and difficult to use but I imagine that this can be alleviated to a great extent by god structure and navigation in the same way that one would use it for designing a web site.
