Blogs vs. Wikis

In this day in age, people in all ages has the need to be connected to the internet. The need to connect to people has become common practice within the modern world. People of all ages uses sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to be connected to people and as well as sharing one's life with everyone. Blogs and Wikis have seen less use due to it being overshadowed by larger social media sites. But blogs and wikis are very useful if used correctly. Blogs can be used for the collaboration of large groups of people. People in blogs can help people in all sorts of ways. An example of collaboration between people in blogs is that "people don't like to fight alone. There is strength in numbers" stated by Katherine Khatari in Micheal Wilson's 2008 article for the New York Times, Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid. It is because of this blog that this Brooklyn neighborhood had that it helped the police track down and arrest criminals in their neighborhood. Blogs are not the only useful one. Wikis can be useful as well. Wikis can pool together information fairly effectively. An article by Information Weekly states, "It's a well-researched, well-written, and highly regarded source of information. If one person makes incorrect or inappropriate changes to an entry, others can roll the page back to the way it was before, or keep the changed and edit them further." Based on this information, I think that wikis can be used in the classroom setting by pooling together information for classmates to help each other study for exams. Information can be edited and pooled by classmates about the materials learned throughout the semester and that can help people study.