Archive for the 'Wikis' Category
January 7th, 2008 by Jorge Goncalves
Wikia Search Alpha Launched. ‘Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine.
Wikia’s search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please bookmark the site and return often.
Right now, the most important thing you can do is help with the “mini articles” that appear at the top of popular search terms.’
January 4th, 2008 by Jorge Goncalves
Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way, Shelley Henson Johnson, Brett Shelton, and David Wiley, Innovate, Vol. 4, December 2007/January 2008. Synopsis: Recognizing the pedagogical value of gaming, academics along with game designers and educational content developers have begun producing resources to improve educational game design and make instructional games more accessible to teachers wanting to incorporate them into their classes. However, the rapid growth of such resources has made it difficult for educators and other interested parties to find what they need. As a first step towards addressing this problem, Shelley Henson Johnson, Brett Shelton, and David Wiley discuss the creation and proposed expansion of the Teaching Educational Games Resources wiki. They first created the wiki as part of a session at the Games, Learning and Society 2006 conference. Panelists and participants contributed to the wiki before, during, and after the conference session, creating an online space that incorporates syllabi and readings for educational game design, lists hundreds of online resources, and includes links to conferences and multimedia resources. After outlining the creation of the wiki, the authors suggest that its incorporation into an online self-organizing social system could facilitate its growth and the emergence of an online community of game designers, researchers, and educators interested in educational gaming.
Teaching Educational Games Resources Wiki. Current topics: Readings, Multi-media Materials, Technical Resources, Classroom Help, Additional Teaching Resources, Career Resources and Gaming and Libraries. Very good!
April 24th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Read/Write Web: The World Of Wikis. ‘A Wiki can be described as a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change its content. The invention of the Wiki is credited to a guy called Ward Cunningham, who in 1994 developed a site called WikiWikiWeb. It was/is a place to collect information on people, projects and patterns in software development.’
Howstuffworks: How Wikis Work. ‘Chances are that you have heard of Wikis by now - they seem to be popping up everywhere. For example, the most famous wiki is called Wikipedia, a massive online encyclopedia. Wikipedia has become so large (more than a million articles) that you run across it all the time in Google. It is so popular that it is now one of the Top 100 web sites in the world! Despite their popularity, Wikis seem very strange to many people. Where does all the information come from? Is it reliable? What stops people from vandalizing a wiki until it dies? These questions and many others will be answered as we dive into the world of wikis…’
From WikiWikiWeb site: Choosinga Wiki and Wiki Farms
March 11th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Wikiversity. ‘Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service. Its primary goals are to: a) Create and host free content, multimedia learning materials, resources, and curricula for all age groups in all languages and b) Develop collaborative learning projects and communities around these materials.
Learners and teachers are invited to join the Wikiversity community as editors of this wiki website where everyone can edit the pages. The community portal lists information about many aspects of Wikiversity.’
Wikiversity:Learning projects. ‘A learning project is a collection of pages devoted to the Learning of a specific topic or family of topics. A learning group uses the said pages to collaborate on a learning goal.’
Tags: wikiversity, wikis
February 7th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Curriki - The Global Education & Learning Community. ‘Curriki is a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world.
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of ‘curriculum’ and ‘wiki’ which is the technology we’re using to make education universally accessible.
Curriki is the result of work done for GELC - the Global Education and Learning Community - an online project started by Sun Microsystems to develop works for education in a collaborative effort. The leadership team consists of people with a long-time commitment to exploring the use of technology to improve education.’
Global Education and Learning Community (GELC). ‘Sun Microsystems, building on the effort of many others, launched the Global Education and Learning Community on June 1, 2004, in order to accelerate efforts to provide affordable lifelong learning for all students, no matter where they are.
With the creation of the GELC, Sun Microsystems is calling for Ministries of Education, K-12 and Higher Education institutions, and others responsible for defining national and regional education strategies, to come together as a global education and learning community to promote an open infrastructure based on a common set of open standards.’
February 7th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
The Academic Blog Portal. ‘Brad DeLong has described the academic blogosphere as a kind of Invisible College - this site is supposed to help make the College a little more visible to itself and its readers. It is a work in progress and will remain that way. It draws on updated information from (a) the Crooked Timber academic blogroll, (b) Cliopatria’s list of history weblogs and (c) Daniel Solove’s Law Professor Blogger Census. With the exception of a few pages (including this one), it is freely modifiable, so that users can themselves add blogs and other forms of content that may be useful to academic bloggers and academics academics more generally.’
Blogs in Education
Chronicle of Higher Education Articles on Academic Blogs
January 22nd, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
StikiPad is a hosted wiki solution that gives you an easy way to organize your information and share information with others. StikiPad runs completely in your browser with no downloads and easy administration, letting you take your StikiPad wherever you have access to the Internet.
StikiPad Examples
Tags: StikiPad, Wikis
November 30th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
Qualitypedia. ‘The Qualitypedia is a WIKI project of the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning. It is aiming to provide a user driven collection of discussions and information all around the topic of quality in eLearning. The qualitypedia is open to all topics and invites comments and feedback from all sides. It presents all kinds of information – from unstructured thoughts and debates to archives of virtual discussion threads and articles, green papers and short definitions. Everybody is invited to contribute.’
The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL) is a European membership organisation. Our mission is to enhance the quality of eLearning in Europe by providing services and support for all stakeholders. EFQUEL is built on principles of dialogue and inclusiveness to promote excellence and innovation to achieve Learning Europe. It is an initiative of the Triangle project funded by the European Commission. The portal provides a unique forum for information, research, networking and debate on innovation and best practice in eLearning quality.
Triangle Project. ‘The European Foundation for Quality in E-learning was initiated by Triangle, which is a European Commission funded project. The main objectives are:
- to promote the European diversity of quality approaches and services in the field of learning, education and training,
- to connect results and concepts on European e-learning quality developed in three successful projects,
- to broaden the discussion and discourse on E-Learning quality and
- to provide a sustainable infrastructure as a single entry point for eLearning quality.’
Technorati Tags: Qualitypedia, eLearning, Triangle
November 28th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
OpenCourseWare Finder. Find open educational resources by typing in the search box or selecting tags. See also:
OpenContent.Org
Open Content Wiki. A place for collaborating on, scheming about, planning for, and developing open educational resources.
November 17th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
More Than a Million Invited to Write and Edit First Collaborative Book on Management Best Practices. ‘Taking a page from Wikipedia, publishing giant Pearson, under its Wharton School Publishing imprint, has embarked on a new book publishing project with two innovative collaborators that could involve thousands, if not tens of thousands of authors and editors. Starting this week, more than a million business professionals and scholars, including faculty, students, alumni, and newsletter recipients from two of the nation’s most prestigious graduate schools of business, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, will receive messages inviting them to collectively write and edit the book, tentatively titled We Are Smarter Than Me.
Pearson, MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, and the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will collaborate to produce the first community-driven “networked” book on business best practices.’
We Are Smarter Than Me - A Publishing Revolution.
November 1st, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
A very nice offer from Wikispaces: 100,000 Wikis in the Classroom. ‘Back in January, we decided to offer our Plus Plan to K-12 teachers for free. We didn’t set out with a grand strategy, just an interest in helping teachers with our easy to use wiki technology. Over 10,000 educational wikis later, we’ve heard countless stories of excited students and empowered teachers. They’ve told us about their collaborative essays, group study guides, online lesson plans, and classroom notice boards coming alive on Wikispaces. Now we’re taking the next step - we want to give away 100,000 free K-12 Plus wikis. That includes all the features and benefits that normally cost $50/year - for free. No fine print, no usage limits, no advertising, no catches.’
Wikispaces. Wikispaces is run by Tangient which is Dominick Bellizzi, James Byers and Adam Frey.
October 15th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
NoteMesh - Collaborate to Graduate. ‘NoteMesh is a free service that allows college students in the same classes to share notes with each other. It works by creating a wiki for individual classes that users can edit. Users are free to post their own lecture notes or contribute to existing lecture notes. The idea is that users in the same class can collaboratively create a definitive source for lecture notes.’
