Archive for the 'wiki' Category
Wiki Nation
By Craig Ullman
Good article for those of you who are new to the wiki and the ways of its (possible) use and application:
In terms of how they work: “Someone — anyone — writes the first draft of an article that you’d normally find in an encyclopedia. Another anyone edits it, another anyone edits that, and [...]
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Student created content using wikis
More form the Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0 (Part 3) article by Brian Benzinger.
A good but brief section on wikis. School use of Wikipedia is covered and there are few links to example. The articles refers to Vicki Davis a US teacher who uses wikis with her students. An excerpt of [...]
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Wiki as a Teaching Tool
By Kevin R. Parker and Joseph T. Chao
Nice paper covering the various uses of wikis in education. I could’ve done without the section on constructivism (too long and stating the obvious) but in any case the rest of the paper is filled with examples of use (writing assignments, project work etc.) and many references which [...]
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How to Start an ‘Activity-Centric’ Wiki
From the Wiki That blog by Kris Olsen
This is nice a short guide to taking the first plunge into wiki world. More suited to project really and as such might be useful to pass on to students using the group options in StudyNet.
From the post:
“# Pick a project or activity you are involved with or [...]
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Wiki, Don’t Lose That Number
By Chris O’Neal
Tiny but useful on using wikis. Couple of good ideas in the list presented including: “Have students use a wiki space to plan the details of a field trip to make it as educationally fulfilling as possible.”
A great many examples are also provided by readers comments (blogging at its best):
For example here’s some [...]
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Talking to Ward Cunningham about wiki
By Giles Turnbull.
Old(ish) post detailing a conversation with Ward Cunningham, who is credited with implementing the first wiki. Very brief and worth noting on how they overcame the problem of a persistant abusive poster. this relates as to how the wikis are looked after by so called soft security - a community of housekeepers and [...]
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Wikipedia Cofounder Launches Citizendium
By Jennifer LeClaire
Brief update on the ongoing saga of data authenticity vs user freedom (and the notion of the expert) as it applies to wikipedia (and wikis in general).
“”The modest success of our pilot project shows that there is hope that we can correct exactly the sort of abuses that people demonize Web 2.0 for. [...]
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Wiki pedagogy
Hi all. Sorry for the lack of posting but I’ve been busy with my new life style consultant and also with creating teaching and learning guides on using wikis.
Anyway here’s a link to a guide in the making. In fact it seems that the author has moved on to other things so the guide is [...]
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Web 2.0 on the rise…
…but still a long way to go. Couple of reports on web 2.0 stats
Web 2.0 not so user-generated after all?
By Reuters
Sobering and brief article on web 2.0 in terms of users viewing and adding their own content. 3 of the main web 2.0 sites are considered:
youTube: “A tiny 0.16 per cent of visits to Google’s [...]
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Multi-touch and wiki collaboration
Great post from Steward Mader’s blog. In it he ponders as to how the forthcoming multi touch* technology might fit in with the use of wikis. Multi touch technology allows you to manipulate files, documents etc. on the computer screen by using your fingers rather than a mouse. One of the more exciting things about [...]
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