Tyrissa Wiki is my very first wiki. This is definitely just in time staff development. I need to create a wiki for a geology class I'm taking that starts on Saturday. So, I was very motivated to learn how to do this. I need the wiki for my class because my team will be creating virtual field trips for our assigned locations and we'll need a space to work in collaboratively. We'll be working on the virtual field trip while we are on the trip but we'll need to finish it when we get back. Since the participants live all over TX, a wiki is perfect for this purpose.
I thought the instructions were straight forward and I would whip this thing out. Like normal, I was wrong. I seemed to have to try everything a couple of times before I could get it to work. I don't know if it is really that hard or if it is just part of the whole no sleep thing. One of the hardest things for me to do was to get my layout to save correctly. It would all be lined up right in the edit mode but when I selected save, the pictures and text would move about. I finally got them to stay in line by putting many rows between each picture and each section. Then when I selected save, everything stayed where it belonged.
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I found that to be true also. I think it is just a matter of getting used to the format. It doesn't work just like Word, and I kept trying to make it work like Word.
ReplyDeleteWikis don't work quite as easily as a word document in getting things to go where you want them, but I thought yours looked great!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like we'll be in the same building next year!