I have not used wikis a lot, but I can see so many applications for their use in the library: class collaboration projects (with a built-in participation history!), staff collaborations, district collaboration, and more. I think it would be an extremely valuable project for a research project in a class -- students, knowing their work would be "published" online, would really take ownership of their research, writing, and giving credit for materials used. Participation can be documented throught the history feature of the wiki space. Perhaps this could replace individual research papers -- at the same time increasing collaborative planning, editing, and publication.They are available for all members (or anyone if unrestricted) 24/7 -- but, not necessary all of us at once as we discovered last week. The key is to save early and save often to ensure your work is not lost should anyone edit on top of you. Also, to be aware that others could be editing at the same moment is important.
A wiki can be a perpetual document so members can add, edit, and expand into the future. I think that our Media Clerks job manual wiki will be a very helpful document for us to collaboratively build upon for ideas, "how-to's", and an excellent documentation of our job.
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The wiki Media Clerks manual is a great project with hopefully awesome benefits for all of us. This wiki manual is an excellent example of using 13 people working on 13 different categories to compose one final product. It would take one person hours to complete this project.
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