Activities undertaken so far:
developing the barnraising page, planning
new page added: Reflection
5 untagged pages now tagged
5 new categories created
* latest taglist now contains 21 categories
Four dichotomies uploaded
ice breaker added
Four people so far responded on the talk page
**Coffee Shop created**
More publicity posted
"Wanted Pages" created
8 new pages created since Friday
6 new user accounts added
sidebar tweaked
TASKS currently on the barnraising page:
suggested tasks for individuals
* Have a go at the Ice_Breaker task.
* visit the exhibition
* explore what content is already on the wiki (Special:Allpages )
and expand on it, tidy, or add comments to related discussion pages.
If the discussion page doesn't exist yet, it will be created when you
save your comment.
* familarise yourself with the functioning of the mediawiki
technology a bit, make an edit, view it as 'preview' before saving,
ask questions, help others.
* register as a user on this wiki, log in, put something on your user page.
* Communicate, meet new people and have fun!
tasks for the collective
* Go through all of the pages which are presently uncategorised
and add categories
* Make a list of which pages are ripe for mass attention
* Make a list of which pages are badly needed - see Wanted Pages
* Determine the neighbouring wikis to DARwiki and specify
relationships and boundaries
* Consider future policy for real names, pseudonyms or anonymous editing
* Consider a statement of aims for this DARwiki
Specialised Roles requiring volunteers
* Theoretician - to build sound foundations
* publicity agent - gathering more barn raisers
* technician - finding out more about mediawiki syntax, showing us
additional functionality
* journalist - keeping records and writing reports about how the
barn raising is progressing
* communicator - keeping each of the different channels informed
of what the others are doing
* teacher - looking out for people who need help and showing them
how to operate
WANTED PAGES
[[Gibbs reflective Cycle]] - One of the most popular models for
deliberate reflection
[[Researcher blogs]] - List of researchers' blogs with RSS
[[Remote Working]] - benefits and challenges for the telecommuter
[[Qualitative data analysis]] - Techniques, evaluation and references
It's Monday tomorrow, perhaps some people will find a bit of time to
visit from workplaces.
A bit of dialogue might be an idea, do you think, perhaps?
--
Andy Roberts
Come and help raise a Barn at
DARnet BarnRaising - March 10th-15th
Bev
--
Beverly Trayner
http://btrayner.info
http://btrayner.blogspot.com