Using class wiki

I recently started a class wiki for my 6th grade Computer Basics class. I'd like to include a reflections page where students can respond to a reflection question. So far I haven't figured out a way to do this that allows students to edit and save simultaneously without losing edits from other student contributors. Any suggestions? Here is the link to the wiki if you need it for reference http://computerbasics-6thgrade.wikispaces.com/ The page I'm struggling with is the "Reflections" page. If you need more explanation of the problem, view my "Excited....Frustration" blog post @ http://www.theworldofcommunications.blogspot.com/.

I'm open for ideas!

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Permalink Reply by Vicky S on September 16, 2009 at 6:46pm

A couple of ways to handle this:
1) Use the discussions tab for this. It's set up to have topics and then answers under it.
2) Embed multiple wiki pages into your reflections page - each student has their own page and then they'll edit their page but all will show on the reflections page. Scroll down on http://stm8thsocialstudies.wikispaces.com/Presidents to the table. Each president is a separate page but all are shown on one page - that way each student can edit without conflicting with another student.

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Permalink Reply by Deborah DeJong on September 16, 2009 at 8:36pm

Thanks, Vicky! I like option 2 because it allows you to see all of the student pages in the one page (Presidents) without showing up in the navigation menu. Can you give me brief instructions how to do this? I've tried a couple of different ways but haven't quite figured it out yet.

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Permalink Reply by Vicky S on September 16, 2009 at 10:26pm

I just created a table and in each cell used the Contents of a Wiki Page Widget. You choose which page and you can give it a title and say whether it can be edited from the parent page - the President's page does allow editing so the students just click on the Edit link for their President to edit it.

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Permalink Reply by Deborah DeJong on September 17, 2009 at 3:41pm

Yes! I got it to do what I wanted it to do. I didn't do it exactly how you suggested, Vicky, but your ideas helped me figure out what to do. Thank you for sharing your expertise!

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Permalink Reply by Vicky S on September 18, 2009 at 12:07am

Glad it worked. I see you went with using the discussions tab. I used this for reflections on a project last year. It works well.

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Permalink Reply by PACI Dominique on September 17, 2009 at 11:28pm

I don't if this is going to help I am trying to make it work but did not try too hard yet (my first year in this new school and evrything seems to go very fast). But You can save, control the edition and I think it can be fun. It should not prove too difficult for 6th graders they are usually very enthousistic aren't they? It is called Revizr

It was difficult to make it work at the beginning so I wrote to Revizr and they were a great help.
You can see it at work on my blog:
Let me know what you think