Public vs. Private

I kept our student project wiki private for a year and felt that the kids were doing such a great job that anyone who wanted to should be able to at least see their work.  So year two of my project I made my wiki public.  If you don't promote it too widely it still feels somewhat like private.Susan

I feel that with the Internet security issues I feel safer having it be a private setting, at least for the year the students are working on it. I like the idea of changing it to public once the work is complete. It would make the students feel more empowered to know that they are published on the web.

I selected Public over private because I wanted parents to easily find the Wiki in order to check up on what we are doing in class.  I attempt to upload new information every day.  I felt it would enable parents to do a quick search if their son or daughter "forgot" what my wiki address was.

I have a Wiki that I created to support a Technology Camp I created for our faculty. It has always been private, however, I opened it as public for the purposes of this workshop.

For my particular use, faculty are posting their reflections of their week at camp, so I preferred to keep it private. I simply prefer to add those who request access which are primarily other educators, vs. open it to the world.