A collaborative wiki in my work environment of a high school classroom would provide an informal communication network between the teacher and students to field any questions or concerns that they may have when face time is not available or perhaps for them to vocalize concerns that students may be too shy to say aloud. This would support learning and performance in several ways as student's could learn from each other's feedback, I as their teacher could view what the majority of the concerns were and perhaps cater my curriculum in that vein the next time to avoid such speed bumps in learning. The ease of accessibility makes a wiki a priceless commodity. In a day and age of smartphones and laptops galore students can just log in to gain assignments and feedback, not too shabby.
In a managerial vein taking wikis out of the classroom, I think a manager would have to be careful not to get too informal with his employees, wikis tend to be a very relaxed form of social media, I think a blog that a the manager headlines in a sense, would be more effective as a certain line of respect is sort of drawn in the sand if you will, of the boundaries of what is accepted in a formal environment and what is not.
A user-initiated effort to build a wiki may tend to be too jaded to that one user's viewpoint, this may not always be the case, but I feel like it might be a tightrope of opinion that may always have to be teeter-tottered if you will, if a user-initiated effort is not supervised. For example, say an employee decided to created his own blog directed toward other coworkers about their office and workspace, this may lend itself to a sort of gossip central if not closely managed.
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