When faced with uncertainty I hit the books. I went back and read the article, The wonderful world of wikis: applications for libraries by Chad F. Boeninger. I went to the wikis he mentioned in his article. I looked them over and tried a few of the links. It gave me a better understanding of how a wiki should be designed and how it can be used. The pieces of the puzzle in my head are starting to form a picture!
I also read through the tutorial offered at Wikia. I took notes. I was able to answer my own question from last week, “how do I format text on the wiki?” After the tutorial I had an idea of how to set up different pages on the wiki. I went back to the request from Butler and mapped out on paper the headings and subheadings.
On a quick side note, I have to comment on the tutorial by Wikia. Ever since I took the class, Education of Information Users, I take note of materials developed to teach online users. In class we looked at several online tutorials. From a developers stand point, the challenge is to produce a tutorial that is clear, simple, and concise. Think about how you would tell someone to open email…….in short simple steps……..now you see the challenge. It is a challenge that interests me, because buried deep inside me is an educator.
Back to wikis…..at this point I am very interested in meeting with my team members. I am curious to hear their ideas and their struggles. I am anxious to share my thoughts on design. I am hoping that by talking together we all get a better picture of how to work on this project together. In our schedule for this week we are supposed to develop prototypes. I don’t know how this is going to work? It is true we need to experiment with design, but I don’t know how to make the web page look the way it looks in my head?
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Kim,
I read your approach to challenges with gusto. Hitting the books and taking initiative to ferret out a way to resolution are helpful approaches to me. I've used those approaches before but what do you do when what I cannot apply what I've read in a book?
I will try to publish this comment now, since it's my 3rd attempt. Wish me luck.
Sue
I went through part of the Wikia tutorial but got confused as I felt their were too many links. Obviously my mind functioned differently than the organizers of the tutorials. ;-)
Different types of people require different approaches to training materials. I'm looking forward to this week's class when Melissa shows us CamStudio and we experiment with taking the next step.
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