The Wiki

The affordances of wikis are best summarised in the table below, although the example points to health professionals it can be applied to electrotechnology students by simulating the case studies in the preceding blogs.

I have explored the functionality of wiki for uploading  and embedding information on my wiki, click the following link that will take you to my wiki homepage.

https://hazelkuveya.wikispaces.com/My+Home+Page

The function of editing is the biggest advantage of using wikispaces, however it falls short from the blogs because it does not show the chronological set up and time for postings. Wikis can be used in a setting whereby the students are required to google videos or images of say principle of operation of an Residual Current Device(RCD), these artifects will need to be embedded or uploaded on their wiki and comment on their findings, they can also comment and edit their peers findings. The use of this technology results in students having an indepth knowledge and problem solving skills due to the vast amount of information being exchanged amongest themselves. Facilitators can also use the wikis to assess the students' comprehension of given tasks and see who requires help in the subject field.

References

http://www.slideshare.net/taylorbrett101/wikis-affordances-analysistable