A video: Wikis in Plain English

Wikis  in Plain English

                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                              

The above video is about “wikis  in plain English”  in which speaker gave more important to the wikis than  e-mail. He says that wikis is a new way and co-ordination key in which we can work in collaborate. In wikis, there are two important buttons such as edit and save. Through the wikis, one can add material by editing page and can save it and also other can also edit the same page, add the new things whatever they like, change the things if he/she finds any fault and also edit the material and create a new location/page and share it to other by giving a link.

Wikis was not made for classroom teaching-learning, but now it becomes helpful for teaching-learning in the classroom. Students can work collaborate and share their knowledge or their different views on any topic which helps them to enhance their knowledge. Wikis enable the students to increase their vocabulary power. Hence it can be considered that it is a new method or approach of 21^st century for the classroom teaching-learning.