What uses might a collaborative wiki or blog have in your chosen (current or desired) work environment? How would they support learning and/or performance? What would be the design and implementation challenges if management tried to do this? What would be the design and implementation challenges of a user-initiated effort?
As an instructor and technology enthusiast, blogs are used by students in the class to reflect on their learning experiences with new technology tools and share their thoughts as to how technology empowers individuals to achieve their academic goals. Students read about various assistive technology tools like Dragon software, which provide individuals with the ability to speech to text. Students understand the value of technology for special education research and practice. Other highlights of using blogs in the class include students recognizing strengths and weaknesses of ability with technology and demonstrating proficiency with basic computer literacy concepts. Students create web pages, wikis, blogs and videos throughout the course culminating with an interactive final project presentation using PowerPoint. The only challenges associates with blogs is managing the reading and assessment from a grading perspective and matching blog topics to learning objectives. With guidance on the conversation, this keeps the discourse focused on educational topics whereas, if students were initiating the blog assignments the content may not always be educational.
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