Classroom Wiki Expectations

Collaboration is a very important part of our society.  Students in this class are expected to work together in order to reach our goals.  In order to accomplish this, there are certain rules that we should keep in mind. 

Be safe: Keep personal information to a minimum.  Don't post things like your age, birthday, address, phone number.  This information should  be kept off the internet.

Be Accurate: The benefit of a wiki is that people can use this as a resource. Your job is to verify any information you add to the wiki. 

Be Respectful: Do not delete or edit any one else's pages. They are working as hard as you are to create a useful product.  You may comment on each other's work as this will be helpful in improving the final product.  Make sure that the comments are useful and respectful.  Be considerate. Keep in mind...comments are good, but questions are better.

This is not a chat room: No waz up?, heeeellooooo, lol, rofl, bff or ttfn.  Use academic language.  This is an educational site and you want to come across as an educated person.

Stealing Locks.  Given the collaborative nature of a wiki we want to establish some "ground rules" concerning Stealing Locks when editing pages. 

• If you attempt to edit a page & the textbox notifies you that the page is being actively edited by another member of the wiki community then take a 5 minute break to allow that person to complete their editing tasks.

• Never steal a lock unless the wiki "tells" me that the page has not been edited for 5 minutes. Never steal a lock when someone is actively editing. 

• This means that you will want to save your page frequently if it is one that others are likely to edit.