Hi, Beth ~ You can post a quick note on your Week 1 mentor's page to let her know it's complete. I am asking those in my group this week (which includes you) to please post a link to your comments and discussion postings ... there are just too many to be able to track them down otherwise. At this point PBWorks does not offer a search for postings by a specific person.
V. (library mentor)

Regarding how to indicate that you've made a comment/discussion board post: On your homework page, just include a link to the page/post where you've made a comment. For an example of what that looks like, see Shayne Russell's completed Week 2 homework (you can get to it from the roster above).

Please remember that the mentors in the summer camp are volunteers who, like you, are scheduling their participation around other obligations. As you may have found with your own grading of student work at school, sometimes it can be more efficient to do "batch processing" (i.e., set aside a block of time to grade multiple assignments at once), rather than interrupting your activities to grade each assignment as it trickles in. That may be the approach adopted by the mentor assigned to you this week.

Bear in mind, too, that homework is due on Friday, which gives the mentors the weekend to review it all and respond before the next assignment is announced on Monday. If your mentor is using the batch approach described above, that means your homework will be reviewed and commented upon over the weekend.

If you need more immediate attention or feedback, you can leave a request for that on your mentor's Bio page or you can even e-mail your mentor directly.

The silver lining to the frustration that you (and perhaps others) are feeling is that those of us who work in a school setting are getting a reminder of what it's like to be a student again -- complete with all the anxiety and confusion that our own students sometimes feel -- which may inform our professional practice when we resume classes in the fall.

Nope ... first names as indicated on the Librarian Mentors table. The volunteer mentors were not involved in setting up the structure of the summer camp. Consequently, we're making the best of the less-than-perfect structure that has been handed to us.

One of the quirks in that structure is that the rosters for each camp level are not broken into easily sortable fields (e.g., last name, first name, etc.). Instead, Name is one large field, which campers quite naturally are populating in Firstname Lastname order.

Because of the large number of librarian campers, the four librarian mentors decided to break up the group into manageable "class sizes" each week. The simplest approach to manage and to communicate was an alphabetical distribution. Given the Firstname Lastname content of the Name field, alphabetizing by first names was our only option. By clicking in the Name column of the roster table, we can sort the list into alphabetical order by first name and easily check the status of our assigned group each week.

That's probably more detail than you needed, but that's why we used the first name distribution of mentor assignments that is indicated on the Librarian Mentors table. I hope that helps reduce some confusion.

It's because we have to work with the program, and since everyone's name is first name first, in the same box, the program will only sort alpha by first name ... and believe me, it's a whole lot easier to find your group of campers when you can click a button and get them sorted to be all in a group! The ups and downs of technology ;-p

V. (library mentor)

Thanks for experimenting and providing clear directions, Sara. We now have a roster permanently alphabetized by first name. Great tip!

Great idea, Sara! We now have an alphabetized roster. Thanks for the great tip!

Thank you soooo much ... this makes editing the page so much easier ~ no more hunting for names!!! You definitely deserve a BIG KUDOS!!!

V. (library mentor)

How about the FAQs? ;-)

I am! I'm arriving on Thursday! I'd love to meet you...name the time and the place!

Good troubleshooting, Karen! Often those performance issues are browser related.

That's a great idea, Sara. I hope some folks take you up on your offer. As you're working on this assignment, be aware that the personal wikis that most of you have created outside of camp are free wikis, which will not contain many of the access, folder, and page-level controls available in a premium wiki. So the videos associated with this week's homework will be "must-see TV."

I think this is a question for Kristine, Mary. Perhaps you could post it to her Bio page and/or the FAQ page.

No worries, Mary. You did everything just as you should have -- restored the page by reverting to page history and alerting the group to be aware of any inadvertently dropped edits. Thanks for letting us know.

I haven't found it to be a problem so far, Jane. If you're creating a wiki that acts as a library web site, then that could be a public wiki, and the 100 account limit wouldn't affect you. On the other hand, if you're creating a wiki to use with student projects, the 100 account limit means 100 students at a time. How often are all 360 of your students working on the same library-based project at the same time? In my case, I tend to collaborate with individual classroom teachers on wiki-based projects, so I might create 25 accounts to use with Teacher A's students for the 3-week duration of a project. When that project is done, I can remove those accounts, if necessary, to make room for a new 25 accounts that I might create for a new project with Teacher B, and so on.