Let's participate in a wiki (Activity I)

Subscribing to the idea that 1000 monkeys with typewriters can produce knowledge may be far fetched. But, if there is a focused topic for participants to contribute, all can benefit from each other's experience producing very usable and sharable information for the entire group.

Wikispaces has a series of videos that may help folks with the learning curve.
In addition there is a 21 minute video by Mike Baker posted at Teachertube called Wikispaces Training. It runs through all the intricacies -- i.e. creating, editing -- a wiki page in Wikispaces. You may wish to view to gain some skills pertinent to this course.
Additionally I have embedded a video I posted on YouTube focused specifically on editing a wiki page and utilizing the discussion, history and notify me, tabs -- as we discussed in class.
[video below]

You may wish to use the full screen button on the bottom right of the video above.

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Be sure you are logged into wikispaces for these activities -- otherwise you will not be able to edit the pages.

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First part of Activity I
I started a wiki page as a simple example for all participants (all teams) to benefit from each other's knowledge
https://bfurst-web20.wikispaces.com/WhichBrowser.
Each participant is to fill in the table with their Browser, Browser's version, Operating System, and Notes on how well it works with wiki spaces. Once you navigate to the WhichBrowser page of the wiki, click on the button at the top of the wiki page and you will have full editing rights to fill in a row the the table (one cell at a time) with your information to share with others. Just be careful not to "clobber" someone else's entry. If you do, no worries, just hit the cancel link and start over. AND, of course, be sure to click the Save button, so your entry can be recorded on the wiki page.

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Second part of Activity I
Now it's time to team up. Each team will create a page to be shared by your team for adding and editing content. Now is good time to get you all to understand a few functions of a wiki page:

1. The history tab (located above the page)
   
2. Notes for the page history log (shown on the bottom of a page while being edited).
   
3. The discussion tab (also located above the page next to the history tab)

Use https://bfurst-web20.wikispaces.com/DiscussionSample as a reference with the following:

1. As multiple people are adding and changing content of a page, there needs to be an audit trail of all these edits -- hence the history tab. When you click on the the history tab, you will see a list (audit trail) showing the date/time of all the edits made to the wiki page in which you are viewing. Also of value is the comment column used to explain why edits were made -- more on that below. Clicking on a particular date/time in the list will display the page as it looked on that date/time with the edits highlighted.(And, by the way, the history log is the method this instructor will use to monitor student activity.)
   
2. So, as folks make changes to the pages, it would be valuable to utilize the Optional: a note about this edit for the page history log box to note "WHY" changes were made. The note here will show up in the history log under comments.
3. The wiki page itself should be reserved for your "body of knowledge". No doubt, as folks add their content, there will be disagreements about accuracy, wordsmith, etc. The first reaction is to "discuss" this on the page proper. But then the page would be filled with varied discussions that may be too pervasive and confuse the reader -- making it difficult to differentiate the actual page content and discussions. Hence the discussion tab. When you wish to challenge the content on the page proper, a technique would be to refer to a discussion topic in the Optional: a note about this edit for the page history log box. A threaded discussion can then help to finalize the content in question, and be available for future reference.