I've used a Swiki with over a 100 students, and I've had 20 editing
simultaneously in a lab. These were middle school students and they were
able to figure it out. Use Je77's suggestions about how to reduce edit
conflicts. Because Swiki maintains an easy-to-access list of changes,
nothing is ever really gone.
On a related note, I really like Winterlong but is there a place where it
matches username to IP address? Since we are behind a NAT when most of the
work is done, every change shows exactly the same information, which is not
helpful for troubleshooting or assisting students. Christian Noack's
enhancements worked passably well in the previous version, but Winterlong
really has some benefits.
Derrel
At 09:05 AM 8/20/2005 -0400, Paul Wittenbraker wrote:
I've used swiki (with great results) with groups of 10-15 students in a
seminar studio format. This year i'm considering using it for 3 sections
of 20 students. Some of the time they'd be in a lab and posting simultaneously.
Any concerns or problems with this application. I'm a bit worried about
edit conflicts and could keep that to somewhat of a minimum by not asking
them to all post to the same page, but some is inevitable. I sometimes
have edit conflicts with myself. Any more detailed information about how
and why this happens might be helpful. What is the window of time that
swiki flags?
Are there stability issues? I have it running on a mac g4.
Paul Wittenbraker
GVSU michigan
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