Wiki

This week we are learning something new again. It is called 'Wiki'. Sounds cute right? And we felt it even cuter when our lecturer Prof. Dr Raja Maznah told us that our second assignment has a lot to do with this Wiki..haha... Now a bit of information: Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly(file:///F:/Wiki%20What%20Is%20Wiki.htm).

So, today we were so grateful to have Miss Lim to give an explanation on how Wiki works. Firstly, i felt a bit weird as why we should use Wiki to complete this assignment. But thinking again: "Oh! This is technology class. So, we should try to transform our old ways of doing work!".For me it not simple though, as there are 75 of us and we need to take turn to use Wiki so that we will not overright each other's work. Maybe one weakness of Wiki is that, there must be only one people editing Wiki at one time, and that person must lock the page. If not, others might edit it and their works will overright each other's. So, if this happens, don't wonder too much if tomorrow you will not see your last night's work on the page.

This second assignment has divided us into three categories, the ones elaborating Brennen's Principle for English, Science or Maths. So, for this assignment, Azee, Mohanesvary and I choose to work together in a group. Seeing that all of us live so far from each other now, it is more like an advantage to my group as we are living in the same place, thus giving us opportunities to have discussions outside class hour. And as we have experienced working with one another before, hopefully there will be no problem of combining our minds together. Then, today also, the bargaining and crossing-hands session started where we have to 'fight' to get the topic for English (so TESL teachers we are...haha..). But unluckily, my group didn't manage to get it. So, being the 'Maths People', my group has decided to work on environmental-based learning principle and learning through guided activity and discovery principle for Mathematics. Hopefully, we would enjoy doing this assignment as indirectly, we learn to do things differently. If before this we were so attached to Microsoft Words to finish our assignment, now Wiki might change our old method of doing works.