You can view it live here: http://mediaictrain.pbwiki.com/Group-One
Our group with twelve members excluding the facilitator worked on a topic that has been circulated in an earlier report. From what I noted, it was exciting to learn and use wiki. From the contributions received, it appears only four people out of twelve managed to access the group page. There might have been difficulties for some members to locate the page on wiki or indeed to access it in any way. I suspect that there was confusion regarding which group to use. Why do I say this? We have our mediaictrain discussion group list to communicate, then the google group was created for each group and then the wiki workspace for the assignment. May be some little explanation on how different each is from the others would help or might have helped.
The topic was easily chosen by our leader and there was no objection to the suggestion. It was relevant and I think equally good to generate contributions from group members.
One challenge I think had to do with access to Internet. It seems that some members have not been able to find access to the Internet as such they could not participate.
Demystifying the terms like wiki, blogs, etc might be helpful. I am not sure how best this could be done. Otherwise I am sure group one would want to practise more with wiki. Those that contributed enjoyed doing so and could make corrections to their contributions very easily.
A final thought or question is on usability of wiki in our newsroom. Do we think are newsrooms are ready for using wiki? Can we use it? Is there any among us who is using it? Please share how it works for you.
Group One members can add or subtract from what I have written. The rest are also welcome to respond on the final thought and question.
Recorder, Victor Kaonga
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