Wikipedia

Web 2.0 tools are part of the formal curriculums, or for special classes / group projects, etc. With that, we can say something in terms of group activity on subject matter. Because web 2.o is a collaborative (and networking) phenomenon, the Wikipedia might be the best choice for educative application. It provides students the basis for:

• independent and collaborative research
• studying, and learning
• critiquing or critically reviewing researched materials
• structuring content
• composing process
• editing
• composition approval and final sign-off

There are still other activities not noted here.

"Wikipedia projects can go a long way in developing new knowledge, skills and abilities as well as understandings of the human component behind, within and in front of the technology the students are using (that they are an integral part of the 'system'). And a concomitant outcome of a wiki project can / may be the facilitation of improved or increased social maturation of the students."

*phenomenon = any observable occurrence (from wikipedia)