My thoughts about using wiki in my class

In the previous post, I talked about the use of blog in teaching intercultural communication. After today's class, i find wiki is much more open and flexible to finish task-based cultural projects because it provides a web-based environement for collaborative work. Content is ego-less, timeless and never finished. Anyone can change anthing. But that's also the problem. If a student makes great effort to search for information and presents his or her ideas in a neat form, what might he or she feel if someone just removes it with the click of the mouse? Frustrated and unacceptable! It's true that the administrater will monitor those posts and keep the good ones. But undountedly every student really think highly of his or her own creative ideas, which, hopefully might engage the interests of the others. So maybe it's better to combine the blog and wiki in cultural projects. For personal exchange and indiviudal assignment, the Ss may do them on blogs, which is an ideal platform to show individual opinions and carry out in-depth and systematic research . For group tasks and collabrative work , the Ss may choose wiki to share different opinions and do peer edition. Another key issue is how the teacher assesses Ss'use of blog and wiki. The updating speed, the content, the layout of the page,peer feedback, the list of reference, visual interest should be taken into consideration for the assessment of blog. And for wiki, besides the above-mentioned, the peer comments on the students' participation in the project should be considered as a very important assessing criterion. Anyway, any benefit from the use of technology does not lie in the means itself but in both linguistic and cultural competence, and hopefully, a healthy multicultural character.