wiki Project

Leah, Amber and Susan are part of a team working on a wiki on children’s literature. Our initial idea was simply something on children’s literature and we planned to get together to refine the topic. Upon reflection, I believe we needed set a method of communication as well as a time frame from the start. I have historically used email because I feel it sends a personal message to the recipients and includes them in the conversation more than posting to my blog, which is meant for whomever. Leah and I bounced a few ideas off each other via email and I liked her suggestions and started to make entries to the wiki. Our collaboration was email and even when Leah looked at the wiki her response was via email. This maybe because I started the conversation with email and if I had used my blog we might be talking through the blog. I did get a handle on where in the world everyone was by reading the blogs. We need to use skype or continue to use email for me to get a feel of collaboration. Blogs work well for posting and commenting and wikis work great for collaborating on the pages but you need a tool such as im or skype or email for the back and forth in my experience.