
Here is what I'm talking about...my first real experience was with a work wiki that my boss asked me to maintain as part of a curriculum review for the PE department at our school. We used it to store important documents that were needed by everyone access to. This worked well when it came to sharing resources such as example curriculum and templates for the review team to see. The problems arose when the teams were asked to edit these documents. What happened was that I would upload a document to edit, then different people would download the document, edit it and then....I'm not really sure what happened after that. Sometimes they would upload their updates, but then we had multiple copies. Or they would email me versions and I didn't know what was the most current. It all became very confusing. I think the major downfall of this wiki use was that the purpose of using the wiki wasn't clear. We weren't using it to write collaboratively on the wiki, put as a shared document holder. There are much better tools for this use so in the future, if I'm going to use a wiki, the number one thing I'll want to do is define the purpose.

