Wiki Week

This week in my Emerging Technology class, we read about wikis and created one ourselves. I didn't want to create a school-related wiki, since I'm floating from job to job right now (unfortunately, my Library Media long-term sub job ends Monday).

I ended up creating a wiki for my writing group, NOCT Writers (Northern CT writers). (And yes, I live in Massachusetts, but it's close enough! Just one town over). Jeannie, Kate, and Rachel have known each other forever, and I met Jeannie and Kate through a Young Adult Novel Revision Retreat in North Andover, MA. We kept meeting at SCBWI conferences, and eventually they invited me to their meetings. They have great insights into my book, and come up with ideas I would never think of.

We've been having a horrible time scheduling meetings lately. We all have children involved in activities. So I thought that I could set up a Wiki for us, and that maybe sometimes we could post our chapters to each other in between meetings. We could either read each other's work ahead of time, before meetings, or read work when it's hard to get together.

Creating the actual wiki was fairly straightforward. I'm not sure if I did everything right - it seems to me that the tabs for each one of us should be more obvious from the front page. I'm not sure if this is just the way it's supposed to be, or not.

The good news is that, like this blog, I can keep coming back to it and improving it over time. Gotta love revision!