After writing the entry below, I went to try and sort some links between the pages of the wiki. To my surprise, one of the pages had changed drastically, so I had a closer look.
No fewer than four separate pupils / pairs had logged in and altered their work on Saturday. Another change was made on Sunday. All of them had lost work thanks to the drop in connection.
I’m pretty impressed by that, but I’m still not happy about pupils losing work constantly, so I’mgoing to try a wee experiment. I had intended ages ago to switch to Firefox, but other people in school(ICT people) requested that I didn’t. However, next time there’s a class using wikispaces, I think I’ll give it a go and see if it makes any difference.
Hi Jen,
Sorry for not getting in touch earlier. I must admit to having been surprised that you’ve been losing pages/edits… but I do know that it can (and does) happen if the network connection is dropped. (we’ve had a situation where we had one computer set to auto refresh so that we could get pupils to save their pages only when we had a connection!).
You should find Firefox much more stable and dependable, especially if you’ve been using IE6…
Let me know how you get on.