Wiki at work cont.....

Yesterday we had our first on-line meeting using instant messenger and the wiki simultaneously. It was not a disaster, but the powers that be made some assumptions about our team members. That assumption was the team as whole would understand using the technology. The assistant vice president is an IT whiz. She understands technology extremely well. I would say about half the team did not and were completely lost. Those of us who consider ourselves technocrats had no problem. Those who barely understand were annoyed.

Where did we go wrong? We made assumptions about the team. In the adult learning world, you can not make assumptions about your learners, an educator has to assess his or her learners.

I almost think we needed to have a face to face meeting first to assess the team's comprehension of the wiki tools as well as the IM chat feature. Though our team are not learners, they are adults and the same rules apply.

On a lighter side I have deemed our web 2.0 venture as WikiKintera. I thought it was funny.