What the WIKI!!!

Oh boy!  I am having some trouble with my WIKI!

I absolutely LOVED the plain English video from the course so much that I have embedded it here in my blog so I have easy access to it when I am a teacher...



Video: Courtesy of Common Craft

After watching this video I was excited about the idea of creating an interesting WIKI that I could get some collaborators on. When I got a great idea and whipped it up with ease eventually, I sent it to colleagues for a test run.



Alas! It was not functioning correctly.  I needed to discover what I had done wrong but was not skilled enough to do so.  I decided to check out other WIKIs created by other students in this course.  I ran into a wall of restriction messages like this one:

That made me feel like maybe I wasn't the only one who hadn't got their WIKI into a user friendly place.  I eventually ran into one that asked for a join code and did a google search on these.  It looked like a "way in" so I created one and tested it on my Husband.

Yes!  He got in!!!   NOOOOOOOO!!! My created content was not there.  Whoa is me! I need to explore this more but I have loads of assessment to get to so I'm going to have to revisit at some point in the future.

On a separate note, I put the word out in a couple of my Facebook groups to add to my WIKI.  So far no one has participated.  This alerts me to two things...

1.  Is this user friendly for collaborators?  If people who want to help me out meet roadblocks along the way, it is reasonable to expect it would go straight into their "too hard basket". 

2. An interactive and great WIKI I believe would be enhanced by invested collaborators. As a teacher, it would be essential to make the WIKI something that is VALUED by the students.  Otherwise the resulting WIKI would consist of lacklustre forced efforts.

Something to be explored!!