In this class session we continued work on our personal teaching websites and then were introduced to our individual wiki communities. We updated our websites by adding our contact address and a link as well as labeling where our future links would be. We also added our picture and when the site was created and last updated. Last, we gave a short introduction about our site informing future visitors of what to expect to find. After we updated everything we were introduced to the process of connecting it all through our index page to the net so that our new information would show up when visiting the site. This led to a lot of confusion around the room because some people had their pictures or their index page stored in the wrong place within their files. We took quite a bit of classtime trying to get everyone back on track and where they were supposed to be and then we all breathed a sigh of relief once everyone was caught up and ready to move on. Our professor had us go through the uploading process once again just to make sure everyone knew where their files were and how to get connected once all was well. When done with the work on our websites we moved on and spent the last half of the evening working on opening our account to our wiki communities. We watched a short, funny film introducing us to the idea of a wiki community and what it's purpose is. I was very scared before class that the wiki's would be difficult and confusing just because of the name. Wiki sounds a lot like wicked. But instead and to my surprise, wiki's are actually quite the opposite. They help to simplify the process of groups gathering information because everyone is able to add any new ideas or sources at anytime as well as correct places where others might have mistakenly put down something wrong or misguided. The added bonus is how easy the wiki is to navigate. It was designed very simply so that almost anyone can do it. The most important buttons to remember are edit, save, and add link. If you can find these buttons then you're on your way to posting multitudes of useful information for a team of members all on the same quest.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Getting Started With Wiki
In this class session we continued work on our personal teaching websites and then were introduced to our individual wiki communities. We updated our websites by adding our contact address and a link as well as labeling where our future links would be. We also added our picture and when the site was created and last updated. Last, we gave a short introduction about our site informing future visitors of what to expect to find. After we updated everything we were introduced to the process of connecting it all through our index page to the net so that our new information would show up when visiting the site. This led to a lot of confusion around the room because some people had their pictures or their index page stored in the wrong place within their files. We took quite a bit of classtime trying to get everyone back on track and where they were supposed to be and then we all breathed a sigh of relief once everyone was caught up and ready to move on. Our professor had us go through the uploading process once again just to make sure everyone knew where their files were and how to get connected once all was well. When done with the work on our websites we moved on and spent the last half of the evening working on opening our account to our wiki communities. We watched a short, funny film introducing us to the idea of a wiki community and what it's purpose is. I was very scared before class that the wiki's would be difficult and confusing just because of the name. Wiki sounds a lot like wicked. But instead and to my surprise, wiki's are actually quite the opposite. They help to simplify the process of groups gathering information because everyone is able to add any new ideas or sources at anytime as well as correct places where others might have mistakenly put down something wrong or misguided. The added bonus is how easy the wiki is to navigate. It was designed very simply so that almost anyone can do it. The most important buttons to remember are edit, save, and add link. If you can find these buttons then you're on your way to posting multitudes of useful information for a team of members all on the same quest.
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