Wikis

Wikis in Education

Last week I attended ‘Exploiting the potential of wikis‘ hosted by Brian Keely, UKOLN and Steven Warburton, Kings College. It was an excellent day with a large number (70+?) of delegates from varied backgrounds within HE (IT Sevices, Learning Technology, Library and Teaching staff). Summaries of the discussion sessions can be found on the obligatory workshop wiki.

As is often the case the day threw up more question than answers but here are my reflections:

1. More examples needed
There seem to be limited examples around of wikis being used with students. The predominant model in use seems to be the “wikipedia model”. Students create a glossary, encyclopedia etc either alone or in groups. For example:

Molecules at Imperial
Taxipaedia at the LSE
Romantic Audience Project at Bowdoin College

Other ideas for using wikis include collaborative report writing, online conferences and debating assigned readings

November 6th, 2006|Conferences|1 Comment|

ALT-C Wiki

Following jane’s postings I was wondering if ALT were organising any online coverage or if others were blogging.

The ALT-C wiki doesn’t really seem to have taken off…. but there is a link to a handful of photos on Flickr A couple of ALT-C bloggers can be found on Technorati and some more (including this blog) on a Google alt-c blog search

September 6th, 2006|Blogging, Conferences|Comments Off|

OpenAcademic Going Live

http://openacademic.org/news/?p=10

A new collaboration in the pipeline: this “project is dedicated to integrating Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki. All code developed under this project will be released back to the respective communities under an open source license, and it will be freely available to download and distribute.”

August 2nd, 2006|Blogging|Comments Off|

altspring – JotSpot

The ALT Spring Conference is using a JotSpot wiki for it’s conference site. Most pages appear to require a login to edit (Perhaps speakers are being given access to add their profiles / abstracts, I’m not sure) but some pages are open to guests to edit. Such as this one: Delegate Blogs – altspring – JotSpot

Perhaps we could think about incorporating a wiki into our website… not sure for what yet!

February 17th, 2006|Conferences|1 Comment|

Moodle: MoodleDocs – our new documentation system

This was mentioned in a recent meeting – Chris maybe? – Moodle Annoucement: MoodleDocs – our new documentation system

Moodle Docs

Needs a bit of work yet!!

January 27th, 2006|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|

Just to see if we can work with child categories

Here’s a test under Vinayak, which comes under “The Wiki”.

November 11th, 2005|Uncategorized|Comments Off|

The Wiki

I know I’m not offically a part of the CLT team, but I figured I had something interesting to share! The Economics Wiki, one of the pilot projects for this year’s EC102 course has begun well. There seems to be a reasonable amount of self-motivation among students – in the voluntary registration process, we have had 50% of the registered student population sign up within the first six days of the form going live, far higher than had been expected.

The weekly discussion that I am running on parts of the coursework has also been going well – I have had five or six people writing on the Wiki and slowly a genuine “discussion” seems to be emerging. Click here to see the page.

If you guys are interested, sign up for a Wiki account, and help edit / watch the pages to see how things unravel this year.

The registration form is at http://econwiki2.lse.ac.uk/Wikireg2005/form1.html

October 20th, 2005|Tools & Technologies|1 Comment|