Community group members are often technologically disadvantaged end users. I explore the use of scenarios and wikis to encourage community groups to become more literate in information technology. My fieldwork suggests that scenarios and wikis can empower community group members as designers, allowing them to become producers of web content rather than just consumers.

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo analizar la gestión de contenidos en blogs, wikis, plataformas educativas, publicaciones periódicas y redes sociales por parte estudiantes universitarios. Metodológicamente se realizó una cuantitativa, tipo descriptiva, con diseño no experimental, transeccional. población fue 150 Universidad Guayaquil, Facultad Filosofía, Letras Ciencias Educación, c...

This paper details the main concepts and the architecture of UfoWiki, a semantic wiki farm – i.e. a server of wikis – that uses form-based templates to produce ontology-based knowledge. Moreover, the system allows different wikis to share and interlink ontology instance between each other, so that knowledge can be produced by different and distinct communities in a distributed but collaborative...

Wikis have been reported as tools that promote collaborative writing in educational settings. Examples of wikis in teacher education are group projects, glossary creation, teacher evaluation, and document review. However, in spite of studies that report on successful stories, the claim that wikis support collaborative writing has not yet been firmly confirmed in real educational settings. Most ...

Wikis are well-known for supporting collaborative writing. They are focusing on asynchronous collaboration. Today, synchronous text editing in the web is supported by several tools and approaches. However, this possibility is still missing in wikis. Based on a prototype implementation, this paper presents design considerations for a wiki integrating synchronous collaborative editing as a specia...