hmm.. not very good at this sharing business yet. I realise I should have posted this to life scientists and my own feed at the same time, not shared it later. I'll learn eventually ;-) - Jo Badge

Took me a while to get the hang of that, too. - Bill Hooker

Anecdotally I get the impression that (private) wikis are becoming commonly used as lab notebooks - there must be a survey somewhere out there with numbers - Jean-Claude Bradley

Agreed, Jean-Claude. I have many customers using EditMe for class notes. And not just private. The only thing better than having your notes in a wiki is having other students put in anything you may have missed. - EditMe

Looks great, Jo! I haven't chance to read it yet, but am looking forward to it, given all the student usage and other data you present. As Mickey noted on your other thread, I've been leading an undergraduate physics course at U. New Mexico where we do everything as "open notebook science" (ONS; term coined by J-C Bradley) using a wiki (OpenWetWare). I gather that your work was not open (Blackboard system is always private, right?)...but there're probably a lot of things in common between the two, such as how wonderful it is for providing feedback to your students. - Steve Koch

Thanks Steve - yes, see discussion on other thread about privacy etc.The supervisor (and also my husband :-) http://friendfeed.com/richard... ) used a campus objects wiki within Blackboard. Access is only via Blackboard and therefore only accessible to those with passwords to the system. It was a first experiment, and started because this is the way that he keeps his own lab notes now. - Jo Badge