B-Group1-HP

A) Look at  **Shifting of Content Production to Users** and SCPU Wiki A In your own words write below "what is this topic about?" - Give some examples and links where possible. ................................................................................... ===In our veiw the topic is about how the Shifting of content production to users and how it will benifit the community. The shifting of content production to the wider community allows for anyone to publish infomation on there area of expertise. This means that instead of a writer sitting in some office typing out an article on car repair using a manual as a reference a mechanic with first hand experience can write an article telling you the best way to change the oil in your car.The sharing of content allow a much bigger data base to be created than a publishing office in England ever could.===

===The use of this modual in schools allows students to acsess a much larger body of information than ever before. A student can search swimming strokes and get a reliable bases of information on which to base a speech or paper. The education link allows students and teachers quick acsess to the information the want.===

===This format allows someone to read the polices and facts about a goverment and how it is run. this freedom of infomation means that they can make an informed decision in an upcoming referendom or election.===

B) Looking at SCPU Wiki A (Impact on education) - List 3 things that are very good about this wiki project. ===This group used their space well with a good layout that makes the infomation easy to read and understand.The use of pictures allows the reader to get a better grasp of the infomation and the ideas in the article. The group also esed lots of links that allowed users to see the groups sources and examples of the shifting of content production to users.===

C) Looking at SCPU Wiki A (Impact on education) - List 2 suggestions for improving the wiki page ===The headings could have been made larger and more colourful causing the readers eye to be drawn to the infomation under it. The use of more subheadings would have made the topic of the infomation easier to disceern. Including captions with pictures would allow the reader to get a better idea of what they are looking at.===

D) Looking at SCPU Wiki A (Impact on education) - List 1 piece of new knowledge our group has obtained thanks to this wiki page ===Our group learnt that the usage of user content production allows more accurate and first hand knowledge to be availible to students and teachers all over the world. This means that we can all contribute to and gain from this concept.===