Tuesday 27 March 2007

Critical Reflection on the success of the wiki

Creating and using the wiki as a class was a new experience for me. In the beginning I had a very basic and vague idea of what a wiki was, but now I have an increased knowledge about it and will continue to work towards a developed understanding.

Collaborating users for the wiki was fairly easy - I became the administrator user who created the wiki through Google, and all we had to do was add every student's email. All students were then able to access the Wiki through their Google account which they created for their blog.
Problems started to occur once we all started to access the wiki at once and make additions.The site from which we were creating a wiki, only allowed a certain number of collaborators to make additions at the one time, and we had more students in the class than this maximum number, so when we were trying to work on the wiki as a class, not all students were able to get on. This sometime caused students to be left with nothing to do.
Another problem we faced was sometimes we found difficulties in publishing. When another collaborator made changes while you were editing of trying to publish your additions, sometimes the wiki wouldn't register it and the editing you had made may have been deleted. This caused a somewhat delay in getting information published as part of the lesson task.
With that said, it was quite fun to be working on an online project as a class, with all of us having the ability to make contributions. We were laughing, joking, and it was a generally fun experience trying to figure out how to operate the wiki.

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