Assignment 2 Follow-Up

Assignment 2 Follow-Up

I tried out a slightly modified version of assignment 2 in class so I thought I'd post a few quick thoughts...

The wiki went over very well. One downside was that in order to edit, you needed to be logged in with a Google account. This may have been how I set the permissions but I haven't been able to figure out for sure. I had prepared for this by bringing paper with me so that students could do it the old fashioned way but as it turned out, enough students actually did have Google accounts already so we were able to proceed as planned. There were a few other very minor hitches but overall it exceeded my expectations.

Things to consider in the future:

• need to have a Google account (it appears)
• only one person can edit the page at a time (no problem for my class but could cause potential problems depending on how the wiki is going to be utilized
• students need to SAVE the page when they're done!

I used the CDLP site as well but I didn't have the students read the articles; they only read the titles. It wasn't really necessary because they only needed to generate a few ideas quickly and the titles were sufficient to do that.