Coined from the two words, Wiki meaning a website that permits easy creation of interconnected web pages using the current capabilities of HTML, and spaces pertaining to the web pages itself, Wikispaces.com is one of the groupwares out in the internet that promises collaboration with anyone you intend to work with your web page. Makers of Wikispaces offer their services to businesses, to non-profits organizations and to academes.
Summary description of its structure and purpose
Wikispaces claims to have a flexible interface for its users by permitting them to do many things, whether it is for their classroom, company or community group. Wikispaces caters educators, parents, professionals and members of non-profit organizations with a wide variety of functions fit for their work needs.
Overall look and feel and its apparent target audience
The look and feel of Wikispaces site has a sleek and simple design that I think in general would be easy enough to navigate by first time visitors. Wikispaces made a very clear and well understandable documentation all over the website just like in their front page and help section. They had made the Get Started division in the right side of the front page with emphasis so to make logging in easy for those who had already registered their wikispace accounts that signifies their membership. Because of their use of large fonts and vibrant color of blue match with large image clips in white makes it suitable for view in mobile phones that do have internet access. Their apparent target audiences in my opinion do range from those children who are just starting to learn the basics of modern education up to those businessmen and professionals including the teachers who do want to systematically setup their way of collaboration with the people they work with.
Usefulness of Wikispaces
Wikispaces is a great tool to make an organize work environment through the use of modern technology brought by the Internet. Paper trail will lessen as this would promote electronic transfer of documents such as memos and agreements for whether for profit or non-profit businesses. Teachers could upload their handouts while children could submit their home works thus saving money we used to pay for printing. Professionals could upload their resume CVs and work related stuffs such as schedules and drafts. Added to the upload functionality is the offered way of interaction with other people by allowing them to access and edit ones files.
Personal application
Just like what the site front page tells, Wikispaces are built for everyone. Since I am student, I can avail of their features they offer as a package specially designed to meet my needs. I may opt to become a member to access my teachers uploaded handouts and course assignments. After that, my teacher may ask me upload rather than print my answers. Checking could be done automatically for multiple choice questions using the template Wikispaces provides. It would be easy then for me and for the teacher to communicate with each other even at great distance since online learning is now possible.
Other things that I find interesting
An added feature of Wikispace is what they call as a Private Label. It permits one member to create any number of self contained wiki environments. Its owner can make it as public, protected, or private depending on who wants to access it thus providing it security.
Now that I had explored the capabilities of Wikispaces as a groupware, it is then proven that its use would provide an edge in organizing ones collaboration with other people.
Summary description of its structure and purpose
Wikispaces claims to have a flexible interface for its users by permitting them to do many things, whether it is for their classroom, company or community group. Wikispaces caters educators, parents, professionals and members of non-profit organizations with a wide variety of functions fit for their work needs.
Overall look and feel and its apparent target audience
The look and feel of Wikispaces site has a sleek and simple design that I think in general would be easy enough to navigate by first time visitors. Wikispaces made a very clear and well understandable documentation all over the website just like in their front page and help section. They had made the Get Started division in the right side of the front page with emphasis so to make logging in easy for those who had already registered their wikispace accounts that signifies their membership. Because of their use of large fonts and vibrant color of blue match with large image clips in white makes it suitable for view in mobile phones that do have internet access. Their apparent target audiences in my opinion do range from those children who are just starting to learn the basics of modern education up to those businessmen and professionals including the teachers who do want to systematically setup their way of collaboration with the people they work with.
Usefulness of Wikispaces
Wikispaces is a great tool to make an organize work environment through the use of modern technology brought by the Internet. Paper trail will lessen as this would promote electronic transfer of documents such as memos and agreements for whether for profit or non-profit businesses. Teachers could upload their handouts while children could submit their home works thus saving money we used to pay for printing. Professionals could upload their resume CVs and work related stuffs such as schedules and drafts. Added to the upload functionality is the offered way of interaction with other people by allowing them to access and edit ones files.
Personal application
Just like what the site front page tells, Wikispaces are built for everyone. Since I am student, I can avail of their features they offer as a package specially designed to meet my needs. I may opt to become a member to access my teachers uploaded handouts and course assignments. After that, my teacher may ask me upload rather than print my answers. Checking could be done automatically for multiple choice questions using the template Wikispaces provides. It would be easy then for me and for the teacher to communicate with each other even at great distance since online learning is now possible.
Other things that I find interesting
An added feature of Wikispace is what they call as a Private Label. It permits one member to create any number of self contained wiki environments. Its owner can make it as public, protected, or private depending on who wants to access it thus providing it security.
Now that I had explored the capabilities of Wikispaces as a groupware, it is then proven that its use would provide an edge in organizing ones collaboration with other people.
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