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**Coach Ruth Assignment1 Wiki Module**

 * Assignment #1 **

Expected time to complete this assignment: 45 minutes

1. Your first homework assignment is to watch the following short video, Wikis in Plain English.

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2. After watching the video, browse through the Help Menu of wikispaces.com. Knowing where to look for help on a topic is very important when exploring a new tool!

3. Using the DISCUSSION Feature Assignment

Finally, contribute to a discussion __using the DISCUSSION feature of wikispaces__ with your thoughts, impressions and ideas about wikis. Here's how:


 * Be sure you are SIGNED IN to wikispaces
 * At the top of this page, click on the DISCUSSION feature at the top of the page. It looks like this:



Tell us what you think:
 * You will see a discussion called "Tell us what you think." Click on this and a dialog box will open.
 * Type your comment in the reply box. What did you learn? What surprised you? What difference is there between a wikispaces wiki and other kinds of wikis? Any thoughts you wish to share are welcome.
 * The purpose of this homework is to show you that there is a discussion feature, and to make you more comfortable with finding it and using it correctly.
 * POST before you exit.
 * Click on "Back to Discussion Forum" and you will see that your reply is recorded.
 * To return to the homework page, just click on the link at the top of the page: "Wikis - What Are Wikis?"

I have learned that there are many different kinds of wikis, which allows many different uses for wikis. I do like the ability wikis have for sharing information between people in a group. I am beginning to envision how we can utilize wikis for faith formation and other parish ministries. I do need to play with this platform for a while before I begin using it with our team. I am concerned that people may not follow through with using it because it does take time to learn how to use wikis. (Teri Burns)

Maria Lai, CSJ I enjoy using Wikis. Whether using the functions of Edit + Write + Saved, or Edit + Write + Link + saved, Wikis holds all the information and allows me to join my group whenever I can participate to share resource as well as to receive information from my group without wasting small talk, greeting time and goodbye time.

I like the the idea that Wikis Edits can be done any time after it's been created. It will be interesting to see how we can use it within our own department( Ivy Foo)

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