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Summary of Article: Wiki's Use in Companies
In May of 2008 David Weekly in the LinuxInsider noted how wiki's are improving collaboration in addition to productivity, and providing a straightforward platform for teamwork. The wiki platform is especially useful for teams that are distributed around the world because wiki's allow for a more effortless development overtime due to how easily change is adopted by the wiki. Not only is the wiki beneficial to the distributed team but it also works well within small offices as the staff at Design Commission has discovered. This tight knit company uses their wiki to record notes from various meetings, store important information for software and Web-based tools, store contact information, and plan for events. Studio Director of Design Commission David Conrad states, "We figure that we save on the order of an hour per week for each of our six team members, and we hope it will be more than that in the long run. Conservatively, we're improving productivity at least $2,000 per month." (Weekly). Whether the business model is expansive or condensed wiki's are beneficial to the collaborative efforts and productivity of teams and the business on a whole when they are used by companies.
Currently my favorite websites are lynda.com, coursera.org, and khanacademy.org. There are others that I enjoy such as Ted Talks, but I find I spent most of my spare time on the educational sites. I enjoy spending my time learning and each of these sites represents different aspects of technology I can learn and benefit from.
Lynda helps me to understand how to use the software and apps as efficiently as possible. At lynda's they provide video tutorials presented by experts in their respective fields many of these experts have more than twenty years experience and wisdom to share. The learning is self paced and self directed. I can go to the site at my discretion and choose what I want to learn, when ever I want to do so.
Cousera is at the fore front of the new educational paradigm commonly referred to as the MOOC, massive open online courses. Thus far I have only partaken in a handful of courses including Social Psychology presented by Scott Plous through Wesleyan University, Crafting and Effective Writer: Tools of the Trade presented by Lawrence Barkley, Ted Blake, and Lorrie Ross through Mt. San Jacinto College, and Human-Computer Interaction by Scott Klemmer through UC San Diego. These MOOC's are set up as a learning community the professors provide weekly video lectures and create assignment then through discussion forums and practice we, the students, all learn together. It is necessary to preregister for these courses and if you are going to participate in the lessons you must abide by the schedule of the syllabus. There is always the option of only watching the lectures, but if you do not participate you will not get credit for the course and it is unlikely you will gain as much from the course.
Khan Academy like the others presents much of it's content through video tutorials. I like to use the Khan Academy for it's math and programming lesson plans. They provide an inexhaustible series of exercises to practice and track your personal progress for you. This is also self paced, you can come and go from the site as you see fit.
These are my top three picks for best websites.
Lynda helps me to understand how to use the software and apps as efficiently as possible. At lynda's they provide video tutorials presented by experts in their respective fields many of these experts have more than twenty years experience and wisdom to share. The learning is self paced and self directed. I can go to the site at my discretion and choose what I want to learn, when ever I want to do so.
Cousera is at the fore front of the new educational paradigm commonly referred to as the MOOC, massive open online courses. Thus far I have only partaken in a handful of courses including Social Psychology presented by Scott Plous through Wesleyan University, Crafting and Effective Writer: Tools of the Trade presented by Lawrence Barkley, Ted Blake, and Lorrie Ross through Mt. San Jacinto College, and Human-Computer Interaction by Scott Klemmer through UC San Diego. These MOOC's are set up as a learning community the professors provide weekly video lectures and create assignment then through discussion forums and practice we, the students, all learn together. It is necessary to preregister for these courses and if you are going to participate in the lessons you must abide by the schedule of the syllabus. There is always the option of only watching the lectures, but if you do not participate you will not get credit for the course and it is unlikely you will gain as much from the course.
Khan Academy like the others presents much of it's content through video tutorials. I like to use the Khan Academy for it's math and programming lesson plans. They provide an inexhaustible series of exercises to practice and track your personal progress for you. This is also self paced, you can come and go from the site as you see fit.
These are my top three picks for best websites.
Hello, my name is Mary I am an artistic introvert. I will be completing my formal education in December 2013. That brings me to why this blog, well it's part of an assignment for school. As such I will begin blogging by following the directions presented to me by my instructors and in time I will morph this blog into something more personal or meaningful to me and or any future you's.
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