Hello Everyone,
Today we are talking about wikis but before I start to, let me ask you, what is a wiki? UHHHH
I have no idea. ‘UHHHH’ is often the response I get from most people when I ask
them the aforementioned question. Wikipedia, WikiHow and Wiki Answers are
household names and yet it is misunderstood. We have been using wikis for over
10 years now and it is our best friend as it is a quick and easy tool to get
some information on that paper/essay you have been pushing back for the past
month. But on to the question ‘wiki’ derived from the Hawaiian word for quick
is a collaborative environment that allows users to make modifications
to its content directly from the web browser without any HTML knowledge. In my
personal opinion, I think a wiki is not
an effective tool for group projects as I
think it lags behind the other tools such as Google Docs. I am not trying to undersell the uses and benefits of a wiki, but I
just think for a small scale group projects a wiki is not that user-friendly.
This week we also talked about the rights and responsibility
of becoming a model digital citizen. Besides being informative it also gave me
the option to use the line “with great power comes great responsibility” (what
can I say I love Spider man). Not taking into
consideration my cheesy like I do think that we are privileged that we have
access to the vast resources of the internet and us as digital citizens have to be aware of our rights and responsibilities.
The three rights and responsibility I find the most important in this are the
explained the diagram below.
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| K,Shah (CC) 2016 |
In my blog I always reserve the final paragraph about some
article/ story I found interesting on the internet and usually they are about
travel, business, and technology. But not
today, this week I will introduce you to
my other love, the culinary arts. In my opinion,
cooking is the ultimate art as it pleases all the senses. Now on to the
story (click here), the article explains the how cooking has changed us and aided
towards our accelerated evaluation. This is because compared to eating raw food
using heat to alter the food’s chemical structure releases a lot more energy. This
article made me thing about the “raw food diet” fad that is been going on
among many celebrities and young adults. This article clearly debunks the
fact that cooking food destroys its nutrients, it is actually the other way
around.
Till next time
Kev
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