Wikis are collaborative websites that allow multiple users to edit pages and track changes. They can range in size from small personal sites to large sites like Wikipedia. Wikis allow the incorporation of images and videos. Most wikis require membership to edit pages. They have been used educationally for group projects, disseminating course materials, and sharing educational resources across many subjects and levels.
Education theories promote engaging student where they are at in the online environment. The proliferation of what is referred to as Web 2.0 tools provide such an opportunity for academic libraries. To engage students where they are in the online environment. This introduction provides an overview of wikis as collaborative writing tools. Authors use creative commons licensing in an online environment
Wikis in the Workplace: Enhancing Collaboration and Knowledge ManagementMary Jenkins
Identification of the benefits of wikis (and blogs) for internal information sharing and as collaborative work spaces in libraries and library organizations. Demonstration of several library wikis that use MediaWiki, pbwiki, and Wikispaces as their platforms and show how simple it is to create pages and edit content. Attendees will also see a few examples of blogs that serve similar purposes.
This is a preliminary document I’ve prepared as a support reference for an upcoming forum on assessment. Its intended audience is academic staff who are highly unfamiliar with online technology.
This document for UNSW Staff provides an introduction to wikis as well as basic instructions on how to get started, including where to request a new wiki, basic set-up and use, and key settings.
Education theories promote engaging student where they are at in the online environment. The proliferation of what is referred to as Web 2.0 tools provide such an opportunity for academic libraries. To engage students where they are in the online environment. This introduction provides an overview of wikis as collaborative writing tools. Authors use creative commons licensing in an online environment
Wikis in the Workplace: Enhancing Collaboration and Knowledge ManagementMary Jenkins
Identification of the benefits of wikis (and blogs) for internal information sharing and as collaborative work spaces in libraries and library organizations. Demonstration of several library wikis that use MediaWiki, pbwiki, and Wikispaces as their platforms and show how simple it is to create pages and edit content. Attendees will also see a few examples of blogs that serve similar purposes.
This is a preliminary document I’ve prepared as a support reference for an upcoming forum on assessment. Its intended audience is academic staff who are highly unfamiliar with online technology.
This document for UNSW Staff provides an introduction to wikis as well as basic instructions on how to get started, including where to request a new wiki, basic set-up and use, and key settings.
This presentation was prepared for a 15 minute practice session for the Foundations of University Learning and Teaching (FULT) program at UNSW in September 2010.
For more information on FULT: http://tinyurl.com/unswfult
This document outlines the process for uploading, processing and sharing presentations and videos via SlideShare and Picasa Web Albums respectively. Sharing of digital materials can be undertaken using a variety of methods and sites ‐ this document depicts just two possible solutions.
’The Hub’ is a space which offers all homeschoolers and unschoolers the opportunity to participate in a range of activities specifically created for the home education community. ’The Hub’ is run by a group of home educating families, partnered with various facilitators to provide learning experiences which enhance and extend what is already provided at home. By providing opportunities to home educating families to participate in activities they might not usually have access to and that they may wish to do in a group setting, we hope to make ’The Hub’ a vibrant resource for the home educating community in the Blue Mountains.
The technologies and people we are designing experiences for are constantly changing, in most cases they are changing at a rate that is difficult keep up with. When we think about how our teams are structured and the design processes we use in light of this challenge, a new design problem (or problem space) emerges, one that requires us to focus inward. How do we structure our teams and processes to be resilient? What would happen if we looked at our teams and design process as IA’s, Designers, Researchers? What strategies would we put in place to help them be successful? This talk will look at challenges we face leading, supporting, or simply being a part of design teams creating experiences for user groups with changing technological needs.
UX, ethnography and possibilities: for Libraries, Museums and ArchivesNed Potter
These slides are adapted from a talk I gave at the Welsh Government's Marketing Awards for the LAM sector, in 2017.
It offers a primer on UX - User Experience - and how ethnography and design might be used in the library, archive and museum worlds to better understand our users. All good marketing starts with audience insight.
The presentation covers the following:
1) An introduction to UX
2) Ethnography, with definitions and examples of 7 ethnographic techniques
3) User-centred design and Design Thinking
4) Examples of UX-led changes made at institutions in the UK and Scandinavia
5) Next Steps - if you'd like to try out UX at your own organisation
An immersive workshop at General Assembly, SF. I typically teach this workshop at General Assembly, San Francisco. To see a list of my upcoming classes, visit https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/seth-familian/4813
I also teach this workshop as a private lunch-and-learn or half-day immersive session for corporate clients. To learn more about pricing and availability, please contact me at http://familian1.com
3 Things Every Sales Team Needs to Be Thinking About in 2017Drift
Thinking about your sales team's goals for 2017? Drift's VP of Sales shares 3 things you can do to improve conversion rates and drive more revenue.
Read the full story on the Drift blog here: http://blog.drift.com/sales-team-tips
How to Become a Thought Leader in Your NicheLeslie Samuel
Are bloggers thought leaders? Here are some tips on how you can become one. Provide great value, put awesome content out there on a regular basis, and help others.
1 WIKIS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING PARADIGMThiyagu K
Wikis are a very versatile and easy-to-use tool that is finding increasing applications in teaching and learning. Wikis are largely used in education for both teaching and learning. Wikis can be used in the classroom to support many learning approaches. Learning approaches that could most be supported by wikis are collaborative learning and the constructivist learning paradigms. A wiki is a web page that can be viewed and modified by anybody with a web browser and access to the internet. This means that any visitor to the wiki can change its content if they desire. While the potential for mischief exists, wikis can be surprisingly robust, open-ended, collaborative group sites. This paper deals about the characteristics of wiki, wiki as a learning tool and uses of wiki in education. This paper also explains the concept of STOLEN principles for using wiki in higher education.
Wikis are a valuable resource to hit the web. They are accessible web pages which can be viewed and changed by anybody with a web browser and permission to access to the page. This makes them perfect for collaborating. A notable ‘wiki’ is the collaborative information website: Wikipedia, which allows users to add or modify information to create a free, useful encyclopaedia.
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
This one-hour session will cover several practical methods of keeping track of student activity in a wiki hosted on Wikispaces. The session is designed for course instructors and tutors.
'The Hub' is a space which offers all homeschoolers and unschoolers the opportunity to participate in a range of activities specifically created for the home education community. 'The Hub' is run by a group of home educating families, partnered with various facilitators to provide learning experiences which enhance and extend what is already provided at home. By providing opportunities to home educating families to participate in activities they might not usually have access to and that they may wish to do in a group setting, we hope to make 'The Hub' a vibrant resource for the home educating community in the Blue Mountains.
Session Agenda: Open Learning FrameworksMike Bogle
This is a rough agenda for a session I'm facilitating tomorrow at the Technology in Learning & Teaching Unconference being hosted by Macquarie University and the Islands of Jokaydia in Secondlife.
Details of the unconference: http://mquncon09.pbworks.com/
Comparative Matrix Of Learning TechnologiesMike Bogle
This matrix is intended to aid planning or help inspire discussion on the efficacy, affordances and effective implementations of different technologies that enable and enrich learning and teaching
These slides were prepared as a visual aid for a presentation for the UNSW Network of Faculty Educational Developers on 5 August 2009.
The primary foci of the presentation are the technical frameworks and environments used during Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008, the distributed nature of the resulting systems, and corresponding learning networks that developed.
The expectation and hope is the presentation will inspire wider discussion on the opportunities and challenges of distributed learning frameworks such as Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and how they might be incorporated into courses - and importantly, how courses might be changed to enable learning networks to form.
For more information on UNFED, please see the following post on the UNSW TELT blog:
http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/telt/blog/2009/04/02/unfed-unsw-network-of-faculty-educational-developers/
Due to the fine detail of the screenshots, this presentation is best viewed full screen.
This presentation was prepared for a discussion of last week’s NMC Virtual Symposium 2008 I’m presenting for my department’s monthly Research Showcase. With only 30 minutes to cover the presentation and subsequent discussion I’ve unfortunately had to be brutal in what I leave out - so if you’re work wasn’t included please don’t take it personally. I would have needed several hours to do the symposium justice.
This is a very basic introduction to Google Lively. While the primary focus is on the Facebook application, most of the information and screenshots will be applicable to the version outside Facebook as well.
1. Wiki Information Sheet
Overview
Wikis are collaborative websites designed to support development of common pages or
articles by multiple people. Wikis frequently incorporate text editors comparable to simplified
word processors and track all site changes via page “histories”.
These histories record the identity or “IP address” of the person performing the edit, the date
and time it occurred, and the exact nature of the change. This allows for recovery of older
versions of page content as well as the option to completely revert to a previous date.
Wikis can range in size from small group spaces of just a few pages to massive sites like
Wikipedia that contain millions of articles and thousands of editors. Wikis are primarily text-
based mediums, however many wiki programs also allow the incorporation of mixed media,
such as embedded video and images.
Access procedures to edit a wiki vary, and depend on the wiki software being used and
the administrative policies of the user community. However generally speaking most wikis
require approved membership to make changes. Wikis are most commonly publicly visible,
however many wiki programs do support private wikis, visible only to approved users.
Educational Use Cases
Group Work Space
During Session 2, 2010, EMPA course ARTS1091 (Media, Society, Politics) incorporated a
wiki to facilitate a group assessment task. This required groups of 5 students to research
the media ownership of a specific country and document their findings in the course wiki.
The wiki was used to support the student’s group work, establish a public resource on global
media ownership, and assess the participation of each individual group member using the
information retained by the page histories.
Location: http://arts1091.unsw.wikispaces.net/
Dissemination of Course Materials
In contrast, in 2009 the same course (ARTS1091) used the same wiki platform in an entirely
different manner; this time as a substitute for a learning management system. The wiki
featured the course curriculum, required readings, assessment tasks, online course events,
lecture notes and other recordings.
Location: http://arts109-2009.unsw.wikispaces.net/
Planning & Sharing of Educational Projects or Resources
2. Wikiversity and Wikieducator are examples of larger collaborative environments established
to support the ongoing planning and sharing of educational projects for many different levels
and contexts. Both sites feature a range of disciples, subjects and project scopes, ranging
from single learning objects through to entire online courses
Locations:
● Wikieducator: http://wikieducator.org/
● Wikiversity: http://en.wikiversity.org/
Readings and Resources
● Australian Flexible Learning Framework article on wikis - http://
designing.flexiblelearning.net.au/gallery/activities/wikis.htm
● UNSW Wikispaces - http://www.unsw.wikispaces.net/
● “Wikis in Plain English” (Video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
● Wikis in University Learning & Teaching (Richard Buckland from CSE, UNSW): http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-8OOrBi0o