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Wednesday 30 March 2011

SWOT Analysis: WikiSpaces



Strengths
Weaknesses
- Tool for collaboration
- Easy to contribute – ease of editing 
- Encourages combined sense of achievement
- Open ended
- Time saving through direct manipulation
- Open-endedness
- Free to set up
- Chance for repetition 
- May be banned in some schools
- Difficult to set up and a challenge to edit
- Open-endedness may lead to lengthy blabs
- Can become messy reducing participation
Opportunities
Threats
- Provides a sense of ownership
- Involves everyone
- Increases opportunity to share knowledge and combine ideas
- Learn about dealing with the internet
- Backup. What happens to your wiki if the host goes down?
- Possibility for irresponsible, disinterested students to delete all work (minus or vandalism of site)
- Security issues

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