I read a line of information out of the "Issues and Advocacy" section of the American Library Association web site and it sort of struck a nerve. The
Monday, July 7, 2008
State of school libraries
Thursday, February 7, 2008
So here we go: Wiki part 3
This is part 3 so you may want to see Part 1 first or go to part2
After students made their choices of indicators on the first day, I realized our first potential problem. I didn't realize so many students would choose the indicator that they were working on in class that day. Silly me. When I got home, checked the selections, and saw that more than half of the indicators weren't selected, I thanked my lucky stars that many of the students were still wrapping up a photoshop project for me. I was able to come in on day 2, write the indicators that were not chosen on the blackboard and request that all the rest of the students choose an indicator that was listed on the board, tell me so that I could write it down, and then they were to erase the indicator off the board. If I did this project again, I would start with the indicators on the board.
Then the next problem came during that second day when a student said that someone had "taken over" her wiki page that she had started. If only I knew that could happen. So, I began warning all students to make sure they are using their wiki page and not someone else's. I also learned something new just a little bit too late. I couldn't figure out how to save this girl's page since someone made changes to the page. I told her to just go back and change it to what it was. I could identify who made the changes by going to Manage Spaces - list pages- opening the page and clicking on history. When I talked to her, she had no idea that she used someone else's page. I realized afterwards that, if we wanted to save the original page that we could by going to the page, viewing the history of the page, click on an older version of the page until we found the correct version and then click on "revert".
So, once we worked through that problem, on our very next day in class, no one could get to our wikipages because of a problem with our T1 line provider. Great timing since the next day was spring break.
After students made their choices of indicators on the first day, I realized our first potential problem. I didn't realize so many students would choose the indicator that they were working on in class that day. Silly me. When I got home, checked the selections, and saw that more than half of the indicators weren't selected, I thanked my lucky stars that many of the students were still wrapping up a photoshop project for me. I was able to come in on day 2, write the indicators that were not chosen on the blackboard and request that all the rest of the students choose an indicator that was listed on the board, tell me so that I could write it down, and then they were to erase the indicator off the board. If I did this project again, I would start with the indicators on the board.
Then the next problem came during that second day when a student said that someone had "taken over" her wiki page that she had started. If only I knew that could happen. So, I began warning all students to make sure they are using their wiki page and not someone else's. I also learned something new just a little bit too late. I couldn't figure out how to save this girl's page since someone made changes to the page. I told her to just go back and change it to what it was. I could identify who made the changes by going to Manage Spaces - list pages- opening the page and clicking on history. When I talked to her, she had no idea that she used someone else's page. I realized afterwards that, if we wanted to save the original page that we could by going to the page, viewing the history of the page, click on an older version of the page until we found the correct version and then click on "revert".
So, once we worked through that problem, on our very next day in class, no one could get to our wikipages because of a problem with our T1 line provider. Great timing since the next day was spring break.
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