This document summarizes a presentation about wikis and blogs. It defines wikis as collaborative websites that are easy to update without HTML knowledge. Wikis allow anyone to edit pages and see editing histories. Examples given are Wikipedia and using wikis in workplaces and classrooms for collaboration. Issues discussed with wikis include potential for abuse and need for planning. Blogs are also covered as being for one-way communication with comments, as opposed to collaboration. Free blogging platforms are listed.
This was presented at This is IT!, 2007 at Durham College, Oshawa, Ontario. It covers Info Management 2.0 tools such as social bookmarking and RSS readers.
This PowerPoint was created to train K-12 teachers in Arkansas how to create gmails account, iGoogle, & Wiki's. This was presented at the Educator's Technology Conference in Rogers, AR onJuly 31, 2009.
This was presented at This is IT!, 2007 at Durham College, Oshawa, Ontario. It covers Info Management 2.0 tools such as social bookmarking and RSS readers.
This PowerPoint was created to train K-12 teachers in Arkansas how to create gmails account, iGoogle, & Wiki's. This was presented at the Educator's Technology Conference in Rogers, AR onJuly 31, 2009.
Connect With Your Users: Communicate Using Social Software ToolsRobFav
NELA presentation delivered at the 113th Vermont Library Conference, May 15, 2007. The presentation explores how libraries are using Blogs, Wikis, and RSS.
This is the slide deck of a presentation I did in 2009 at the University of the Sunshine Coast to a group of teacher-librarians. Most of the content is almost certainly out of date now in 2016, but some might find parts of it useful for their own presentations.
Connect With Your Users: Communicate Using Social Software ToolsRobFav
NELA presentation delivered at the 113th Vermont Library Conference, May 15, 2007. The presentation explores how libraries are using Blogs, Wikis, and RSS.
This is the slide deck of a presentation I did in 2009 at the University of the Sunshine Coast to a group of teacher-librarians. Most of the content is almost certainly out of date now in 2016, but some might find parts of it useful for their own presentations.
Presented by Samara Carter and Monique Clark at the 2013 Power Up Your Pedagogy Conference held at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College.
A (University Laval) presentation about WikiWork as an adjunct to BOLD and Elluminate to 2 campuses in Monterrey, Mexico in Nov. 2009. Please note that references-sources are cited in the notes under the slide in question
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
4. What is a Wiki?
Best known wiki: Wikipedia
Uses open source wiki software
(MediaWiki)
Typical wiki:
Anyone can edit any entry – many
contributors
Log in to make changes
Discussion page for all content
6. Features of Wikis
Easy to update – no HTML needed
Collaborative: can identify who
made what changes
Version control: can restore older
versions and see history of
changes
Discussion feature: can discuss a
page in a discussion area
9. Wikis in the Workplace
Exposure to wiki technology and
content is good for students’ resumes
Used in many offices for team projects:
collaboration on anything from general
project management to specifics like
problem-solving product-design
difficulties
Growing belief in collaboration tools as
effective contributor to innovation and
growth
Remember: Employers value teamwork
– wikis are all about teamwork.
11. Ah, How times
Have Changed
Dec 2005, re the Nature study: “We’re
very pleased with the results and we’re
hoping it will focus people’s attention
on the overall level of our work, which
is pretty good” Jimmy Wales
Jan 2007: “…if you do care to
represent yourself as something, you
have to be able to prove it. This policy
will be coupled with a policy of gentle
(or firm) discouragement for people to
make claims like those that EssJay
made, unless they are willing to back
them up.” Jimmy Wales
12. Wikipedia & Credibility
Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia
Britannica in Nature, Dec. 2005
Did Wikipedia really win?
BBC article about the Nature
research
C Net news article about
Britannica's response
13. Wikipedia’s Latest
Credentialism Problems
Regular and respected contributor
Essjay turns out to be just a 23
year old with a lot of time on his
hands rather than a credentialed
theologian.
Founder Jimmy Wales defends him
at first but eventually has to let
him go – not for lying to the media
but for lying to the Wikipedia
community.
14. New Definition of Literacy
“This explosion of online content
demands a more complex definition of
what it means to be literate… Now that
anyone with an Internet connection can
publish and disseminate content with
no editorial review process, consumers
of Web content need to be editors as
well as readers…We must teach
students how to actively question and
evaluate published information instead
of passively accepting it as legitimate.”
Will Richardson (www.weblogg-ed.com)
15. Should Students
Cite Wikipedia?
No clear answer: “it depends”
Often a great place to start or get
background (Like most encyclopedias)
Can be useful for
current/emerging technologies or
new research e.g. downgrading of
Pluto to a dwarf planet
Not something that should
regularly appear in bibliographies
(Like most encyclopedias)
16. Using Wikipedia
in the Classroom
Students can contribute to or create or
alter an article
Ask them to find an article in Wikipedia
and then verify it or refute it using
library resources
Use Wikipedia article citations for more
information
Bottom line: Use is situational, tell
students to use it with a critical eye &
try to verify what they find in a more
credible resource
17. Citizendium
Wikipedia written by experts and
authorities.
Created as a result of a dispute
between two Wikipedia founders
Also created because of Wikipedia’s
credentialism problems
Looks physically like Wikipedia
@1,600 articles as of April ’07 (over 1
million on Wikipedia)
Still about collaboration but no
anonymity
More expensive to maintain and grow
than Wikipedia.
18. Citizendium
& our students?
No anonymity, it is a more credible
source
Still an encyclopedia and best for
initial explorations & fact-finding
19. Creating Wikis in the
Classroom
Easy to set up a group project
History – can see/assess who is
participating
Built-in discussion area –
encourages participation
Faculty projects – for e.g. course
mapping, policy documents, etc.
20. Creating Wikis in
the Classroom
Group work repositories – can
view content after course has
finished
Group work presented on a wiki is
easily shared with everyone in the
class
Examples:
King Lear screenwriting project
Study hall
21. Issues to be aware of
Anyone can write to it – be careful
of abuse
Privacy when student work is
online – lock down with password
Need to plan the navigation ahead
of time
22. Roll your own Wiki
Mediawiki
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Med
iaWiki (need server, same software
as Wikipedia)
PBwiki http://pbwiki.com/
Wetpaint http://www.wetpaint.com/
Wikispaces
http://www.wikispaces.com/
SeedWiki http://www.seedwiki.com/
Zoho Wiki http://wiki.zoho.com
http://wiki.zoho.com
23. More than just Wikis!
Depends on your need…
Google Documents and Spreadsheets
http://docs.google.com/
Zoho Writer/Zoho Sheet
http://www.zoho.com/
For formatted documents
Word/Excel documents
Import documents already created
26. Maybe Blogs are for You?
One way communication
Comments feature to get feedback
Communication not collaboration
tool
Repository of your
communications to your class with
archive/search box
Can add useful links, categorize
your posts
27. Blogs
Free, easy to set up (no HTML
required)
Blogger http://www.blogger.com
Wordpress
http://www.wordpress.com
Edublogs http://edublogs.org/
More
http://supportblogging.com/Bloggin
g+Options+for+Educators
