Learning News Writing Using Emergent Collaborative Writing Technology Wiki

There is always a call for studies on blended media, which is one of the effective or pragmatic approaches to be used in particular instructional contexts. In the learning of writing, a review of prior studies suggest that revision as one of the key process to quality writing. However, current approaches do not provide relevant processing capability to such an area. Until recently, Wikis have been an emergent technology to effectively capture collective intelligence of individual users through writing, for example, as shown in the successful case of Wikipedia. In turn, this study attempted to explore if Wikis technology would mediate individual learning experience, in particular, in the process of journalistic writing. In a field study of a studentwritten Wiki developed by student journalists for an online shared resources of original news reporting, to complement traditional classroom teaching, it was found that quality of student written work was significantly correlated to revision behvaior, supported to prior claims. Three modes of implementation strategies were suggested in order to boost learners’ motivation to make relevant and quality revision to their work.