Wiki Training Lecture

Make sure you have created the new semester's team roster before giving this lecture! Also make sure you have added all new members to the wiki as directed at the bottom of the list of early responsibilities

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Google Account

• Log in. You must be on the AguaClara team to have access to the username and password.
• There is a folder for every team where you can store all of your documents.
• You can share these documents with your personal account so that it is easier for you to edit them. To do this: Click share... in the upper right hand corner. Click on Invite People. Add your email address. Make sure the To Edit bullet point is selected. Hit send.
• I embedded the challenges and calendars, and your team leaders will embed the weekly minutes into the wiki so that people can see them/access them from there and they are open to the public for viewing.
• Weekly minutes are not turned in, but expected as a way to organize your team. Record problems, progress, and important details.
• Calendars. Each team has their own calendar. This should be used as a way to keep track of meeting times and deadlines for assignments. To view a certain calendar just click on it so it is highlighted under My Calendars. You can then click on a specific date to add an event. You can share the calendars with yourself by clicking on the down arrow next to the calendar name under My Calendars, clicking Share This Calendar, adding your email address, selecting Make changes AND manage sharing under the Permission Settings tab and clicking Add Person.

General Information and Introduction

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1. The wiki is our face of open source engineering. That means that everyone from scientists and engineers to potential donors to your parents goes on it to see what we are up to. Every word you write must be spellchecked and professional.
2. Please do not just put stuff up here to make it look like you've been doing extra work. It doesn't fool anyone and it just means that your midterm or final feedback will tell you to rewrite everything! This is a real database and we cannot have it bogged down with fluff. You should update the wiki, not just add to it, so if something is out of date you may delete it or fix it.
3. The answers to most of your questions and uncertainties are probably already there. We have an in-depth wiki organization guide, photos, and there are always other pages to steal formatting code from.
4. The wiki is set up like a tree, there are important branches fanning outward from the Home page and where you put new pages in the hierarchy is very important.

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At the end of the lecture take 5 minutes to explain the personal page assignment. Have everyone go back to the Home page and show them again how to navigate to the syllabus and to the assignments page (both from team resources). Show them the personal page assignment, it has very detailed step-by-step instructions, and tell them they should do it ASAP while the wiki lecture is still fresh in their heads!

Team Leader Preparation for Wiki Training Lecture

Make sure you have created the new semester's team roster before giving this lecture! Also make sure you have added all new members to the wiki as directed at the bottom of the list of early responsibilities

This lecture is meant to provide an outline of basic skills team members need to successfully edit the wiki. Without these skills they will be unable to do any of the assignments or correctly document their research, so this lecture is very important. Make sure to host this lecture in a computer lab so every student can sit on the wiki and follow along while you project your screen in the front of the room and lead them. Carpenter Library has the Accel labs, which are OK for this. The wiki becomes overloaded very easily, however, so it might be best for several students to work together or even for students not to follow along if it slows your presentation down significantly.