WIKI TRAINING MATERIALS

Group: Clare, Derrick, Floyd, Susan

CRITIQUES

 Learning objectives and outcomes are not stated

Section: TIPS

1. Key words are not defined and explained

 E.g. need to define what public or private is.

Section: Prerequisites

2. No minimum requirements stated

3. Trainer has to have knowledge on creation of wikis, how is it designed

Section: Exercise No. 1

4. Challenges should be shown at the end of the learning. This should be replaced with Issues associated with working with an online environment

5. Materials needed for? An explanation should be given.

Section: Wiki Examples

6. There’s need to inform the learners of issues concerning band width, space given, etc

Section: Exercise No. 2

7. Should stare subscribing to a wiki not creating a wiki

8. What syntax???

Section: Exercise No. 3

8. What does it take to become an administrator? What skills are required?

9. How does an administrator add users?

10. What does it take to become a gardener? What skills are required?

11. Which software is required for media wiki? What are the server specifications?

12. Advantages of media and PB wiki aren’t clearly stated.

Blogging

Training time should be increased to about 2.5 to 3 hours

Reasons:

1. Most institutions (training institutions inclusive) are bandwidth poor and so speeds might not be so good.

2. to allow room for practice (posting comments, allowing participants to analyse blogs and discuss related issues)

Introduction

Should include an abstract on blogs vis-à-vis ICT4D

Comparison of blogging (as an example of Web 2.0 tools) and (personal) websites (as an example of web 1.0 tools)

Add to Exercise in unit1 participants views/comments on blogs they just visited

Wording in Exercise, should be ….. Websites/personal websites

Ex 1.4. Add a Trainer’s note regarding authentification to some blogs before comments can be passed

On exercise on creation of blogs; include a step by step instruction.

RSS

Materials give an overview but don’t allow for instructional approach to working with RSS (don’t go beyond explanation of terms)

Lacking: identified target (as we don’t know whom it was targeted at, not sure if it meets its objectives vis-á-vis adequate info)

History could include the evaluation from static web to more dynamic/collaborative web and web 2 tools  2nd generation contextualise RSS within Web2 evolution

Formatting: needs to include

 More graphics

 Deeper breakdown so that text is less wordy / verbose (include more bullets, tables, etc. to better categorise sections)

 More subtitles so as to entail easier more digestable bits

 Major definitions/terms should be captured in side boxes for easy reference

 RSS history and versions should be clear and separate section

Content: needs more info on

What you need

How it works

How it is delivered/received

Different types of newsreaders and their differences

How often one can get feeds

Needs hands-on/practical exercises guiding learner on How-To’s

More resources and links etc (and group existing ones better)

Atom not defined (as well as others such as GUIDS, social bookmarks, feed categories & so on) in text

Different formats (audio, text, graphics) should be mentioned much earlier and in a clearer fashion

Needs more examples

Overall Comments:

 Difficult to follow

 Hard to have overall picture / understanding of RSS based on the text provided

 Should compare other sites’ content on RSS like Google, Wikipedia, BBC etc.

What we liked:

1. labours to define most of related terms

2. if trainer only had 5 minutes to convey facts about RSS, text supplies that; serves as somewhat of a springboard that you can use before going to other sources of unpacking;

3. language is simple and understandable except for terminology

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