How wikispaces, blogs and websites differ from each other

Wikispace can be most effective when a group of people working on a same project. Not only does it allow community editing and history retrieval, it also encourages dialogues, ideas sharing, brainstorming etc, in a word - to shape out a masterpiece with the wisdom of the mass. For example, to get advanced Chinese language learners to create a text book for the beginners. With the instruction of the teacher, the learners can go to the same wiki page and put in their ideas about how the first lesson of a beginners Chinese language book should contain. There will be brainstorms going on, debates going on about what is appropriate and what is not, editing, re-editing etc etc. Previously acquired knowledge of Chinese can be displayed, errors can be corrected by learners themselves, suggestions coming out from learners' experience, evaluations been accessed by teachers, and a potentially better, more learners friendly text book be made.

Websites like the Weebly however, are more private, although it also supports comments and feedback from the viewers. Websites are personal masterpiece of art with a group of audience commenting and talking at the background.When it is used to create the first chapter of a text book, it displays the owners ideas and thoughts, it delves more into a personal knowledge system. Teachers can assess better a student's general learning outcome at the end of a period studying.

Blogs is a 21st century personal diary, a timeline. It allows viewers catches up with the owner's latest mind and thoughts, and go backwards to find out more if they are interested.  A good example is: a student who is traveling in China and keeps his/her blog up to date with his/her experience everyday. The information is shared with the studying community and everybody's seeing China through his/her eye.