Tips for Group Work
From Mediawiki:HELP
Strategies for Instuctors/Wiki Administrators
Groups need guidance as to how to proceed with work on a wiki project. Here are some ways to help them get started:
- Provide links to some example sites to help groups get ideas for how a wiki project could be presented and organized (see Teaching & Learning with Wikis).
- Require groups to plan a process for collaboration, BEFORE they get started (see Strategies for Groups, below)
- Provide a link to this wiki help page (http://otal.umd.edu/wiki/help) on your wiki, to help students learn how to use the wiki.
Strategies for Groups
Group work can become very chaotic if steps aren't taken to ensure good communication and organization. Therefore, members should come to an agreement as to the process they plan to follow when contributing to and editing the wiki. Here are some guidelines that use the wiki's collaborative features. The advantage is that all communication and tracking is attached to specific pages in your project making it much easier for you members to manage:
- Use the discussion tab (Talk pages) to communicate with your group:*
- To propose changes or additions.
- To explain recent edits.
- To ask questions about the project.
- To display proposed text for review, before posting to the article.
- Be sure to set the watch pages to keep up on all changes.
- Watch article pages, AND the Discussion/Talk pages.
- Check the history page to keep up with change details and compare versions.
*Talk tips:
- Sign your discussion contributions using the signature button
or ~~~~(markup).
- Use indent (a colon), to indent replies.
