Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Week 9 - Wikis

The library staff at Stoughton have already made use of wikis internally (thanks to our progressive and fearless leaders). In one instance a portion of the staff all needed to add their input to a particular document. If I am remembering correctly, the edited portion was a different color. My memory fails me as to how we differentiated each of our edits.

Here are two comments based on my experience with wikis that were also stated in the lesson:
  1. Start with a skeleton of a document that all involved can then edit.
  2. Make the time allowed for editing finite, shorter rather than longer.

2 comments:

PandaLibrarian said...

Hi Amy,

I'm glad to hear that your library already uses wikis - great! Depending on the wiki you use, color is definitely an option to differentiate edits.

I also like your comments - especially about the time allowance. It makes sense for a document being created using a wiki to be limited - but also to be updated there as needed.

Congratulations on completing the first semester of Project Play! I hope you'll take a look at the information for week 10 and give us your feedback on the project and join us for second semester!

Keep on playing!

Jean

jaime said...

Hi Amy,
I, too, was glad we had tried out some wiki-work prior to this lesson. We should rethink about how we might use one again for a dept. project...or maybe for staff committees...and I really need to go back and find the one we did a year ago for our Dept. Assessment and either re-use it or "weed" it!
Jaime